Do I take the job or the possible relationship of a lifetime?

I'm facing probably one of the hardest decisions of my life and I need some sort of feedback from it. There's a bit of a background to be able to full understand every so bear with me, I'll try to keep it short.

There's this guy I met a few months ago, let's call him George, and we talked and he seems like a great guy. We hit it off well and everything was fine. Then he told me about an issue where he would soon be leaving the country and we sorta both felt it'd be in our best interest not to pursue anything further than being friends. As much of a bummer as it was, we didn't. Well that time came and went and he ended up being able to stay.

We began talking again and everything seemed to be moving along nicely. While we were recently talking I mentioned that I was currently looking for work and he told me he knew of somewhere that he could get me started working at. We decided to meet and talk about it and we did. Turns out with me being good with numbers/math the job would be right up my alley and the pay is AMAZING. Everything sounds good right? Wrong. The job he was offering me meant that he would basically be my boss. He also made it clear that if I were to take the job and we become co-workers that there's no chance whatsoever of us doing anything at all together outside of a professional level because he would prefer to keep those two aspects of his life seperate and well it's the right thing to do. He told me this during the middle of the job conversation and idk how to exactly describe the feeling but it's almost as if I felt the worst gut pain I've ever experienced. It felt like my heart fell into my stomach and was then being ripped out and it sucks.

I start college soon in March and it seems to get the most out of the job I'd need to be working full time. That's the good/bad for the job. While we were leaving from where we met I brought up being bummed about not being able to see where things went with us and it seemed like he was pushing me towards the job but more in the whole "Overly excited to the point where it felt like he wanted me to choose the other option" sort of way. The feeling with my stomach is still lingering even now.

Well there's my dilemma. I'm leaning more towards turning down the job offer since it seems the relationship, if it turns out we like each other as much now as we do in a romantic aspect, would be a lot more worthwhile. I start school soon regardless which means I wouldn't be able to work full time and he seems like a really great guy. I mean he even went out of his way to randomly text me a few days ago just to check up on me and see how I was doing even though he was having a bad cold with a high temperature. I've done the whole "casual dating" thing a few times now and no one I've ever messed around with has ever been that kind to me.

Any feedback on this is greatly appreciated

 

Thanks for the suggestions both of you. I don't think I'm going to take the job. We wouldn't be working in an office together or anything since it's mostly a job of meeting clients and going from there but for me to do that without having a car my friend offered to take me anywhere I needed to go since he'd be the person bringing me in and knows me. Either way, it'd still be a bit much always being around him like insidehappy mentioned and not being able to act on my feelings even the slightest.

Perhaps after college would give me a chance to try the job and at least by then I'll see if we have a shot together or not.