Mint is joining Hololive

>her podcast with Matara is likely to end this summer
Because she's joining Hololive in the Fall. She will be too busy with her first year in Hololive to be able to do a podcast.

>she was hesitant on coming back as a vtuber
One of her biggest struggles with coming back or not as Mint, was that her return would be temporary. She didn't want to come back to her fans, only to leave again shortly after. It took a lot of convincing from Matara to get her to come back.

>she was considering taking up a job at fast food or a grocery store
She only needed a job temporarily and part time jobs are easy to get out of. If she wasn't joining Hololive, she would have considered being an OL instead.

>she wasn't going to get a new model or rerig her old one
No point in spending that much money on something you won't be using for longer than a few months, because she's joining Hololive