Dilemma

[mk_tortie]

I've been offered the possibility of a really great job over the summer. It's not definite, I have to go and train for a week or so first, but after that I could do it. The problem is, I'm playing lots of gigs with The Promise this summer (the band I'm in for the Scout centenary). Literally, I'm going to need about 4 weekends off and one whole week, and maybe more. My current job, the charity fundraising thing, is really flexible (I chose what hours I work each week) and so that wouldn't be a problem. But with this new job I think it would be. So do I go for the new job and stress about conniving my way into weekends off, or do I email the guy back and tell him that I've been offered the chance of developing my music career and I think it would impinge (is that a word?) too much on the job for me to be able to take it? Grr, it's so annoying, the job I've been offered is tour-guiding round London, which I really want to do. But I just am not sure it's going to work. Ick. Advice would be very welcome!

In other news, I got locked in the toilet yesterday for half an hour... The lock fell out as I locked it, and the bit that actually turns the lock fell out the other side, so I spent half an hour trying (unsuccessfully) to get it under the door until my housemate got out of the bath (in the other bathroom) and heard me shouting and let me out! Who says my life isn't eventful?!?

Comments

[anna-in-the-sky.livejournal.com]

Couldn't you just tell the new employer about your weekends off dilemma? Maybe you can find a solution. At best, you'll still get the job and will have weekends off. At worst, you won't get it, but then again, you get the same result if you simply refuse. Sometimes it helps to be straightforward.