waitressing trumps office job?

i sent out my cv to several places a few days ago and received a call from a restaurant as regards my cv. instead of the waitressing job i initially applied for, they were offering me an office job. something to do with accounting.

according to the guy, i was over qualified to be a waitress and as it happened, they had an office worker vacancy. although i prefer customer service sort of jobs, i was still quite excited about this job because office jobs pay better than plain old waitressing. the guy then said someone from the office would be contacting me the next day... which was today.

the other guy called me in the morning (waking me from my glorious slumber!) and after a brief chat, it transpired that the office was in elephant and castle (at the end of the barkerloo tube line!) and not only would i have to ride the entire tube line to get there (11 stops!), but i would also have to take a bus after reaching the elephant and castle tube station in order to reach the office.

now, not only is it far, but elephant and castle is in my mind a rather dodgy area at the fringes of london... the only thing that i would go there for is MOS (ministry of sound). Also, i was more interested in waitressing than in a boring office job (god knows i'll have plenty of opportunity for that when i start chambering!). so i turned the job offer down.

seconds after i put down the phone, i began to regret. what kind of idiot turns down a job opportunity in the current economic climate??? summore it was a job opportunity of a higher standard than the one i initially applied for! plus it would no doubt look tonnes better on my cv than if i did waitressing!

after beating myself up over it and whining to my family about my dumb move, i've calmed down and no longer feel too bad about it. after all, im just looking for a summer job and it would be best to do something that i actually enjoyed :)