This ad is like spam. We know spammers are full of shit, but it only takes one person dumb enough to actually reply...
College student seeks personal assistant for $10-$12 per hour...
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You're also not a college sophomore who should have time to do it themselves.
Pilgrim.
The class envy in this thread is astonishing. I don't have a personal assistant, but a while back when I was working 90 hours a week for a few months in a row, I HIRED a lady clean my apartment once a week.
Could I have done all the stuff she did? Yes. Technically, I had the time. However, working that much is STRESSFUL and I just didn't want to. I think if I had done all that stuff, I might have had a nervous breakdown... in the middle of working 90 hour weeks.
Does this kid need help? Maybe, and maybe not. But if he can pay the bucks, more power to him. ESPECIALLY since he's providing a job at much higher than the minimum wage. Folks cry in fake pain about the lack of jobs right now... this guy is providing one.
Could I have done all the stuff she did? Yes. Technically, I had the time. However, working that much is STRESSFUL and I just didn't want to. I think if I had done all that stuff, I might have had a nervous breakdown... in the middle of working 90 hour weeks.
Does this kid need help? Maybe, and maybe not. But if he can pay the bucks, more power to him. ESPECIALLY since he's providing a job at much higher than the minimum wage. Folks cry in fake pain about the lack of jobs right now... this guy is providing one.
No.
No. [shudder] Sorry. I was just having a memory there.
Anyway, the sad thing is he needs to hire someone to do the sort of favor a friend or family member would do. the plus side is, he's demonstrating professional management and problem solving skills at a relatively early age.
Anyone who says he's "providing a job in a tough economy" is overselling it, just a teensy bit. We're talking about a handful of hours a week--apparently very irregular hours, too. It's not so much a job as a series of errands you get paid for, enough for beer money, maybe.
Stereotypes exist for a reason. Ever met a Georgetown kid?
A domestic draft beer costs upwards of $8 in Georgetown. At a dive bar. Or, well, what passes for a dive bar in Georgetown.
No.
No. [shudder] Sorry. I was just having a memory there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEKywn7fhVo
Kid is kinda a douche, but more power to him if he wants to do this. He's quite possibly legitimately busy, but so are lots of people who manage to get by. Still, if he has the money, he can do what he wants with it.
My guess is that the guy would be too insufferable to be around. But, as a second job to add extra money, it might not be terrible. Certainly pays better than I'm making right now.
This is the only part that is unreasonable. The laundry cycle could take from as 30-70 minutes to wash and 30-60 to dry, that is a lot of unpaid time that the assistant can't just go and do whatever.
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A domestic draft beer costs upwards of $8 in Georgetown. At a dive bar. Or, well, what passes for a dive bar in Georgetown.
"This is the worst dive in town."
"Why is everybody wearing khaki pants?"
...I'm thinking.
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At first glance the guy seems a tad pretentious for a college student. But he can apparently afford it, and I know there are plenty of students who could use the extra cash. Anybody price college textbooks lately?
That's the only part I had a problem with. Unless the PA lives right down the hall from him (or from the laundry room) and really can do other things in between, it's not fair.
The pay is unreasonably low for what is a pretty shitty sort of job considering it would have to be fitted in around other stuff. But he only needs one desperate person to bite and voila, instant staff. Lucky him.
The concept is fair enough. I sometimes think about hiring a Jeeves-like character to manage the banal necessities of my life but the cost of someone decent always puts me off.
The concept is fair enough. I sometimes think about hiring a Jeeves-like character to manage the banal necessities of my life but the cost of someone decent always puts me off.
Lots of rich people have full time assistants or other variety of hired help (dry cleaners, maids who come in once a week, etc.). Heck, it's considered a given that executives will get assistants. The only difference here is that the guy is a college student. Big deal.
Though, I don't think the pay is enough for the job, imo. He should bump it up to $18-24 if he wants some decent applicants.
By the way, his biggest mistake was giving away so many personal details in the ad (along with posting the ad in the college 'want ads'). He could have avoided a lot of public ridicule.
Though, I don't think the pay is enough for the job, imo. He should bump it up to $18-24 if he wants some decent applicants.
By the way, his biggest mistake was giving away so many personal details in the ad (along with posting the ad in the college 'want ads'). He could have avoided a lot of public ridicule.
Indeed. If he can afford it, and some one wants to work the job, what business is it of anyone else.
Um, he posted this as an ad, so...everyone?
Who are you to tell me that I can't mock or judge someone?
Those who mock or judge are only setting themselves up to be mocked or judged. Besides, I think most of the ire that his ad is stirring up is actually thinly veiled jealousy.
Again, who are you to tell anyone whom they can mock and/or judge?
I doubt that, if anything people are mocking him because we were all able to go to college while holding down a job or two without the need to pay someone bad money to be their "mother" and writing up a bad ad for it.
Is it the jealous mind that automatically projects inferred jealousy unto others?
Yup, jealousy...
I accept it, if I could I would. More power to the guy. People who attack, mock, and judge him are just covering for their own jealousy that he can do something that they can't or wouldn't because they fear the mocking and judging of others who are jealous.
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