I would recommend temping, it gives you an opportunity to find out what you enjoy doing the most and often leads to permanent work.
I ended up with my current job because of the experience I had got with temping..
I had a permenant job and really hated it, so saved up for a couple of months, gave my notice in and took the summer hols off with my kids and lived on the money I had saved, then in the september I went temping, whilst applying for permanent work and ended up with my current employment in the November... and that was over 6 years ago
