Is it bad to decline jobs in this case?

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There is an agency that helps me get jobs because I am autistic. I worked a few jobs they got for me so far, but a few of those jobs over the years was working in the freezing cold winter, and I found it hard, and it was giving me digestion problems as well.

They just got me another job interview, and I went to the interview found out it is going to working in the freezing cold again, and with required overtime, which makes working in the cold even worse of course. So I feel like turning the job down now, but they really want me to take it, and do not want me to turn it down, since they helped get it for me and all. It's only a seasonal job until July, but I honestly do not feel I can make it in the cold with overtime so far. They said they may want me to work 84 hours a week some weeks, but I know that from past jobs, if they want you to work overtime some weeks, that means every week, you always find out after you take it.

I usually do not mind overtime, but it's just having to do in the freezing cold at possibly 84 hours a week does not sound good. What do you think? Should I take it because they helped me get the opportunity and it's only seasonal for about for months?

They pay is also only a little over minimum wage, and I feel that working 84 hours a week in the cold, I would feel better about doing it if the way was higher, but am I being too self-entitled?

If it causes you too bad health problems, tell so to the people who helped you to find the job and don't take it. Or you could try to negotiate things in a way that they won't give you more than a certain amount of hours a day, an amount that you can handle, and say that the reason you'd like things done that way is the trouble it brings to your health.

What sort of job is this? Loading trucks?

If you have other job offers then you can pick

Otherwise "beggars can't be choosers"

Oh okay thanks. As long as I am not being too picky or self entitled. Maybe I am more of a chooser, but the agency wants me to be a beggar it seems.

What sort of job is it?

Planting plants for a greenhouse company but a lot of it is outdoors.

That seems like a pretty hard job.

The actual work seems like it could be okay, it's just the 84 hours a week I have a problem with.

Don’t you have a law about time-and-a-half after 40 hours?

I’ve never heard of a job that requires 84 hours a week....except interns at hospitals.

Yeah there is a law and they are breaking it I am assuming unless they found a loophole, I could not find. But if their is no loophole, and they are breaking the law, well I guess no one is reporting it, or not aggressively enough perhaps?