Imagine agreeing to work for a family member for a summer job. You’re picturing part time hours with plenty of time left to enjoy your summer break. If you found out your would actually be working 12 hours a day, would you keep the job or quit?

This young man casually agreed to help his aunt’s property maintenance company.

He was not expecting 12-hour work days.

He wants to quit, but his mom wants him to keep the job. What should he do?

Read the full story below to decide.

AITA am I over worked or and I lazy

I’m a 17-year-old dude, and I apparently agreed to work my summer away.

I was at my aunt’s house.

She has a property maintenance company she started about five months ago.

When I was over there, I said I would work for her a little bit.

This young man thought the gig at her aunt’s house wasn’t going to push through.

So, I took Monday and the weekend off from my milking cows job to start.

But they never got back to me.

So I thought I wasn’t working there.

My mom said nothing about it for the rest of my junior year.

He started in the summer and thought it was a part-time gig.

Then summer rolls around, and the first day she tells me I’m working there the whole summer.

At the time, I had already quit my milking job a week before summer.

I used to work like 3 to 4 hours after school at my old job, so I thought it would be something like that.

He would work for 10 to 12 hours.

I pull up the first day of summer to the job and do a quick 4 hours during the day.

Then the next day I go in, get there at 7:30 a.m., and we work until 9:30 p.m.

I thought it was just a long day, but I go back again, and we go from 7:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

This becomes a regular thing.

He told his mom he didn’t want to work long hours every day.

So, I call my mom on one of these days at the end (I was sleeping at my aunt’s house), and tell her I don’t want to work 10 to 12 hours a day. I tell her I want to quit this job.

She says, “It’s only 12 hours. Get over yourself.”

I’m not against having a summer job to pay for a car (she drops me off at work before she goes to work).

I just don’t want this job.

His mom got mad.

But every time I bring up that I don’t want it, she gets mad and thinks I’m selfish and don’t want to work.

I was heat exhausted the day I called her.

I get sunburns, and poison ivy, and ticks.

I don’t want to be in pain my whole summer from sunburns and poison ivy.

He doesn’t have a car and relies on his mom dropping him off at his aunt’s.

I don’t have a car.

I’m studying to retake my permit test.

On days she has to go in early, she has to drop me off at 4:30 a.m.

It takes her an hour and thirty minutes to get to the hospital she works at.

That doesn’t sounds like a very fun summer job.

Let’s find out what others have to say about this on Reddit.

This person shares some useful advice.

Short and honest remark.

Here’s another helpful suggestion from this user.

This person shares their personal thoughts.

And finally, this user encourages him to continue doing a summer job.

Agreeing to help shouldn’t mean sacrificing your well-being.

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