<prompt> Human: Tl;dr at bottomIm a 24-year-old Asian male living in Southern Cal with my parents. I have a B.A. in Communication from UCSB, as well as an Associate degree in Accounting from a community college. I just finished a three months internship as an assistant for a CPA at a small accounting-advising firm, which leads to the crux of my dilemma.During my 40-hours-per-week internship, my official duties were scanning tax documents and doing QuickBooks payrolls for client companies, but I was also expected to greet and interact with clients, answer phone calls, and try my hand at tackling bookkeeping as needed. After the tax season ended, my boss gave me a harsh but honest evaluation: I didnt exceed expectations. In fact, I was underwhelming. I met the bare minimum expectations, which is doing payroll and scanning documents, but he deemed my skill with payroll as being shaky and my steadily improved scanning speed as still being really slow; these assessment are certainly true. He also noted I am very bad at answering phone calls: I lost count of how many phone calls I bungled by failing to extract essential details...Now, there is another assistant of his that handles the bulk of the office work. For personal reasons, they have to leave for another country, leaving a vacancy that needs to be filled. My boss told me he is offering me an opportunity to try to fill in the gaps and assume that assistants duties. On top of my previous duties of scanning and doing payroll, I would have to handle more bookkeeping, manage sales, file tax reports for client companies, and interact extensively with both individual and company clients via phone and email. During my internship, the only emails I sent were internal. All this for a salary of 1,000 a month, with a chance for a raise based on a quarterly performance evaluation. I was working the previous three months unpaid.Why unpaid? Because my parents begged the companys owner, who is basically a mentor-partner with my current boss, to take me in for free, no salary, so I can gain experience. The owner, being an old church friend of my mothers, agreed. In fact, thats how I got my old jobs as a custodial assistant at a community park and as an intern at a broker-investment firm: connections. I havent done a single job interview in my life. Just how fucking ridiculously spoiled am I, huh...?My parents financial situation is getting unbearable; see, our expenses exceed our income. My boss told me he believes I would be unlikely to excel in other office environments, as hes been especially lenient with me. Other companies would have told me to leave a long time ago, he explained, for playing with my phone at times. Since the tax season is over, it is reasonable to expect that he can afford to be more hands-on now. Another thing to keep in mind is that sometimes I actually cant find the time to eat lunch. He tells me to, of course, but sometimes I just plain dont have the time. Now, my duties will only increase... Thats all the details I can think of at the moment.So, should I accept the salary 1,000 a month? My parents think its a wonderful, golden opportunity and want to me to seize it. My friends and brother think I should reject the offer. What do YOU think?TL;DR: Southern Californian Asian dude offered 1,000 a month at place he previously worked as an unpaid intern, doing payroll and scanning. New added duties would include answering more phone calls, doing more bookkeeping, handling sales, and interacting with clients. Old hours were 40 hoursweek; new hours should be the same. Take it or leave it?UPDATE 800 bonus was given to me today. Better than nothing, I guess.  <response>: 40 hours a week for 1k a month? Thats like 6.25 an hour before taxes below the legal minimum wage. Entry level for something like this in SoCal I would be expecting something closer to 1k a WEEK. 