New job dilemma

[love_rainbow]

One of the jobs I applied for recently was at this English school, and it's actually pretty crazy. They had me do a phone interview, and then a Skype interview the next day, and then they wanted me to come in for a trial day on Saturday since that's their busiest day. It was INSANE, but I felt that I handled it fairly well. They said they'd get

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[love_rainbow]

Yeah I think you're right. Actually I am really good in chaotic situations, and I really like unusual types of working situations. Like I'd really rather not be in an office the majority of the time. BUT I still would like to have work to do other than just the Saturday deal! I've only worked in the office now once, and was told that basically they just do accounting work on Monday after class the previous Saturday to account for the money made that day. I have no idea what the full time receptionist/accountant does the rest of the week, but she says she works there nearly every day. I thought they needed an assistant, but I'd barely be helping at all. I know they really really need the help but it's just weird.

Like supposedly I'm hired now, and I told them I'd take the job. But then when I was talking to the fulltime lady, she said "If you decide to commit to the job..." in a conversation about it, and I"m like... "commit..?" like I thought I already said I'd do the job, what do I have to do, sign something in blood? I thought that by training me in the office they were officially hiring me. Maybe it's miscommunication between the employees, she's not in charge of hiring anyway.

But now the problem is how much work they're going to give me. I now realize that they really just want me to help on Saturdays more than anything else, and come in on Monday. But this Saturday is a day off, so that also means there's no money to account on the following Monday. So that's nearly two weeks of not working. I didn't want to work a lot to begin with, but I still had the goal of being able to at least pay my own school loans myself, so I'd need at least $520 a month just for that.

Having a work visa like I do means that I can only work 28 hours a week, and most other places would want to have me working as many of those available hours as possible, so if I try to get a job somewhere else, I would most likely have to quit this one. And while I personally would benefit from that, I'd feel guilty because they really do seriously need help, at least on Saturday. ... even though waking up at 6am on a Saturday and dealing with all that chaos kind of sucks.