Hey Chill-I totally get the awkwardness of working for a potential boyfriend. Is there any barter you can arrange? He's obviously very handy and if there is anything in your life that needs regular maintenance or whatever, maybe he could take care of that? OK that may have come out wrong!! Just brainstorming.
As far as the job goes, don't let any business owner blackmail you. he knows better than to hold the old "I don't want someone leaving after a few weeks/months-looking for a long term employee" crap over your head. In this economic environment there is no more long term anything. Ask him if you give him a guarantee of staying X number of months, will he guarantee not to lay you off for X number of months? Hell no he won't! he could go belly up tomorrow and he knows it. Especially since he's only offering min wage AND it's only weekends! How cheeky! So tell him this, you'll give him a guarantee of X number of months if he'll give you a guarantee of employment for those same months, AND X more hours AND you want min wage PLUS $2 pounds/dollars an hour. Or pick and choose the negotiation points. See what he says to that! Any employer only offering a weekend position with next to nothing hours and min wage has NO right to insist on long term loyalty!! Off my :soapbox: now!!
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