Should I still scribe if already accepted?

I just got offered a scribe position, 24-36 hours a week. The pay and the hours are pretty bad, and I'll have to work some weekends and holidays. I'd also have to scale back on my current part-time jobs, one of which is really fun and one of which pays really well.

I've already been accepted to med school, so it's not like I desperately need clinical experience, but I would be able to include it in update letters. Don't know how much it would help though, since the main thing that needs improvement at my reach schools is my grades.

However, I'm still leaning towards taking it because I've never been in the ER and am curious about what it's like. My friend who was a scribe said she saw a lot of really cool/exciting cases and the occasional trauma. (Also let her rule out ER as a specialty.) Except for occasional shadowing in the OR, all my clinical exp has been in a primary care clinic, but I feel like I've always been more drawn to something a bit more high-paced. For those of you who have been ER scribes, do you think the experience would have been worth it even if it hadn't been useful for getting into medical school?

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Should I still scribe if already accepted?