Interview?!

I had an interview yesterday!  I was super excited about it: an office manager role at an alternative medicine clinic (5 practitioners).  I thought, well here I can get more practical experience working with patients before I go back to school for a clinical mental health degree, perfect!  The interview went really well and I think the head doc really liked me.  Then it came time to discuss salary.  Wow.  That’s all I have to say.  I am not sure how anyone could survive in NYC on a salary that low.  I literally would not be able to pay my bills and I live in a VERY inexpensive apartment in a pretty ghetto neighborhood.  Now I am stuck with a dilemma: do I take the job knowing full well I can’t actually pay my bills with what they’re offering or turn it down and keep looking?  I don’t think I would have time to keep looking for work since the job is around 55 hours per week, and the commute would not be insignificant.  Tough questions.  And this is all assuming that I even get offered the job.  Another one of the problems we’re all facing: As we see prices rise due to inflation, increased costs of petroleum and petroleum based products, and global food shortages we are looking at lower and lower salaries, or multiple part time jobs with no benefits.  But yeah, we’re out of the recession now, right?