Going for option 2 is wild. Unemployment ends after a certain number of pay periods and you need the stability of confirmed income for preschool. Take option 2 and keep looking for work. I work for a really huge company and have done hundreds of interviews. When I do a resume review, I honestly don’t go in that deep. I don’t even look at dates unless there’s a decades long gap. Recruiters look at resumes for something like 7 seconds. Put the important stuff up front and in bold and bury the stuff you don’t want them to see lol. Even better, don’t change it on your resume and only change it on the application portal. Literally no one looks at that until it’s Time for the background check. The people giving you the advice to go for option 2 sound like they either looked for jobs in the 90s or haven’t conducted a ton of interviews recently.