On one hand, 15$/hr, amount of work required, 18hr/week cap, sounds like the job I had while in college. On the other hand, 18/hr week cap and arbitrary hard d

On one hand, 15$/hr, amount of work required, 18hr/week cap, sounds like the job I had while in college. On the other hand, 18/hr week cap and arbitrary hard deadline sounds borderline exploitative. But to me, it sounds much more like a mismanagement. If I were in your shoes, I would first go to the person responsible for continuation of my employment and talk about the possibility of you not handling the work-load. It might be that this person doesn't even know what is asked of you, but would be able to tell you things about the process of evaluation of your work, possibility of hand-over, extending of your employment, when would they terminate it e.t.c Then I would get the person who represents the people whose problem you are solving with your software, with the one who created the product specification (i.e. you got that it has to be iOS, Android,e.t.c from some piece of paper, hopefully with more specifics and a known author :-) and as well as person that is responsible for the progress of your work into the same room. Might be a single person. Might not :-) Now I would try to negotiate reduction of scope (i.e. I would probably want to drop the iOS and Android apps and focus on the web/backend, focus only on the biggest pain points that you want to solve). This is why it would be good to have some user representative in the room, maybe you learn that EVERYBODY has iPhones, and nobody would use a web-browser on their phone, or some other arbitrary thing, that would help you reduce scope/prioritize features. I would try to leave in just the Minimum Viable ;) Then I would setup probably weekly meetups with the person that the work will be completed so that we would see if the deadline needs to be extended. Your situation kind-a reminds me of a weird fan-fiction about the second Death Star and its project manager [1] [1] https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11685932/1/Instruments-of-Destruction https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11685932/1/Instruments-of-Destr...