<p>Awwww, c'mon guys, this is just too much! Juggling is part of adulthood,</p>
<p>College</a> student seeks personal assistant - Washington Post- msnbc.com</p>
<p>and personally, what fellow co-ed are you going to find that wants to wash your dirty underwear?? Ewww!</p>
<p>On one hand, I would never, ever ask for a PA even if I were super rich, because it’s just too dorky somehow. Plus kind of spoiled-rich-brat, of course. But I would totally take a job like that - I mean 12 bucks and hour is more than babysitting plus you don’t get thrown up on.</p>
<p>But you have to touch his dirty manties and not get paid for the time you have to sit there and watch the washer spin.</p>
<p>Yeah…but you can wear gloves and hold them by the waistband. And you could just read a book while you’re waiting for the washer. I mean, I’m not saying it’s the ideal job, but that’s good money. But I wouldn’t want him to tell other people that I was his PA though.</p>
<p>As the article points out, this isn’t entirely unusual, in that many students at universities across the country (my own included) use laundry services. This is merely taking it a level up, in a way that many in the working world would if finances allowed. So I really think this is much ado about nothing.</p>
<p>You could just read a book while you’re waiting for the washer instead of attending to your own life even though you aren’t being paid for that time.</p>
<p>^ Well I meant like doing homework or something you have to do anyway - I’m not saying I think it’s the most awesome job it the world or anything - I’m just after the money lol.</p>
<p>Personally, I think the kid who posted the ad sounds obnoxious. But it’s more a matter of his style than his substance. </p>
<p>It comes down to what his time is worth–what are the tradeoffs? Is he able to work more hours at his high paying finance industry job because he farms out some of his daily mundane tasks?</p>
<p>An anecdote:</p>
<p>A few years ago my neighbor went ballistic when she came home to find a neighborhood boy doing the lawn work-cutting, bagging, edging-- that was her 17 year old son’s assigned family chore. Especially because he received a $20/week allowance.</p>
<p>Her son also worked as a bar mitzvah tutor, making $25/hour. He hated doing the yard work but he loved doing the tutoring. He had decided that he would rather pay the boy from across the street $10/ hour (that was what the boy charged families in the neighborhood) to do the yard work for him, and he would tutor the extra 2 or 3 hours a week that he was freed up from the chore he hated. He figured he was out from a job he hated and money ahead at the same time.</p>
<p>I’m not his parent so I am not sure how I would have dealt with this.</p>
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<p>This seems to beg the question: Why do “adults” need personal assistants if juggling is part of adulthood?</p>
<p>Sorry…just being facetious.</p>
<p>If I’m someone’s personal assistant, they’re going to have to pay me a hell of a lot more than $12/hr. I get paid more than that as a tutor for the department…</p>
<p>And something about the “time estimates” for each task irked me. I’m not sure why though.</p>
<p>Plattsburgh,
I agree with you. It’s the whole tone of the ad that’s off-putting. Adults make this trade-off all the time. A lot of professionals say they would rather bill a few more hours and pay to have someone clean their houses and do their laundry.</p>
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<p>I would congratulate him. He not only makes a profit from the kid, but he makes extra from tutoring more, which far serves him better since he can actually put that down on his resume.</p>
<p>I wonder if anyone actually took this position…</p>