Weighing a contract offer against waiting after 8 years as an accounts payable clerk

I got a contract offer for 8 months as an accounts payable clerk and I am unsure whether to accept. This is my first time dealing with any of this. I have 10 months of savings left.

Thanks for writing this out. I went through something close to it 10 months ago, and it settled down once I kept a simple log of every call and form.