<p>If I were a student there I wouldn’t have minded taking this job were it not for the fact that time is clearly not compensated as it should be and there isn’t enough time to do everything he wants anyway. I can’t imagine spending money on a personal assistant myself, at all much less as a student, but if he has the money to blow I could sure use it myself.</p>
<p>Wow. Is this a serious ad? How is it that the student can provide a car, but cannot drive themselves anywhere? Where did you find this advertisement, if I may ask?</p>
<p>Assuming its real, you don’t understand parking charges. In DC, it very well could pay for itself depending on parking rates and alternatives.</p>
<p>It was found on a Georgetown U Blog site. Deemed very legit by me.</p>
<p>I think it’s quite possible, and knowing what parking in DC is like even asking someone else to park your car doesn’t seem unreasonable. We paid $16 to visit GW for a couple of hours.</p>
<p>“Vox Populi”</p>
<p>Wow! Landon - my bad. Apologies to Dubai. This kid doesn’t need a PA, he needs a Little Hoya from Georgetown Prep to give him an express pass down the Excorcist steps.</p>
<p>Here’s the link. [Vox</a> Populi » Georgetown sophomore seeks personal assistant, takes premature self-importance to whole new level](<a href=“http://blog.georgetownvoice.com/2009/10/16/georgetown-sophomore-seeks-personal-assistant-takes-premature-self-importance-to-whole-new-level/]Vox”>http://blog.georgetownvoice.com/2009/10/16/georgetown-sophomore-seeks-personal-assistant-takes-premature-self-importance-to-whole-new-level/)</p>
<p>The kid who placed the ad is a sophomore?</p>
<p>[College</a> student seeks personal assistant - Washington Post- msnbc.com](<a href=“http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33434740/ns/us_news-washington_post]College”>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33434740/ns/us_news-washington_post)</p>
<p>Well I would be suitably embarrassed!</p>
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An enterprising fellow student PA could have some fun with this task.</p>
<p>Too funny! msnbc.com has picked up this story. [College</a> student seeks personal assistant - Washington Post- msnbc.com](<a href=“http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33434740/ns/us_news-washington_post/]College”>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33434740/ns/us_news-washington_post/)</p>
<p>I think the going rate for nannies is a bit more than $12 per hour, and they will certainly charge for the time that they watch the wash spin. Sounds like he needs a nanny.</p>
<p>As I posted in the college life forum, I think that the student who posted the ad for a PA comes across as arrogant and obnoxious, but maybe that’s the style of his ad over its substance. </p>
<p>What are the costs/benefits to him? For example, does freeing up his time let him work more hours at a highly-compensated financial industry job–so he ends up $$$ ahead while focusing his free time on other high-value activities, like studying for better grades or high powered networking?</p>
<p>I was thinking about a situation that arose in my neighborhood a few years ago. One day my neighbor went ballistic when she came home to find a neighborhood boy doing her lawn work, which was her 17 year old son’s assigned chore. He received a $20/week allowance.</p>
<p>The son also worked as a bar mitzvah tutor for $25/hour. He absolutely hated the lawn work and absolutely loved tutoring. He decided to pay the neighborhood boy $10/hour (the boy charged $10/hour–he did a lot of lawn work in the neighborhood, his own little business) and to tutor the additional 2 or hours / week that were freed up. To him, he was out of a chore he hated, and making a lot of $$$ doing something he loved. he eventually tutored 10-12 hours/week.</p>
<p>I’m still not sure how I feel about this.</p>
<p>I understand the value of doing a chore to benefit the family; the boy’s twin sister preps dinner every night. The boy used to say he would have been glad to prep dinner, or to swap weeks, but he was not consulted about what chores he could do. And he argued that the object was that the yard be done every week, and that the situation was a win-win all around–the yard was done, he was many $$ ahead, and he had benefitted the neighborhood boy as well.</p>
<p>I give the boy points for being creative. And the lack of consultation about chores is a mitigating factor if any mitigation is indeed called for. </p>
<p>BANG!</p>
<p>Next case.</p>
<p>I think this kid is a good citizen. He wants to create a job and move the economy forward.</p>
<p>He’s looking to pay someone, not have someone do this stuff for him as a favor.</p>
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<p>I’m not so sure about that.</p>
<p>My D had a college classmate who worked part-time and summers at a major investment bank. At the time, he earned more money annually than the average college graduate might hope to earn after working for five years. He could easily have afforded a PA!</p>
<p>I’d apply except for 2 things–I’m not in the DC area, and I really hate city driving.
I think its fine–as long as he’s paying and nothing’s illegal.</p>
<p>Plenty of stay at home moms whose kids are in school hire someone else to clean their houses. They certainly have time to clean their own houses. They just don’t like doing that kind of work and prefer to pay someone else to do it. It sounds like a similar situation–except maybe the student doesn’t have much time for these mundane tasks. Maybe he makes more $ at his job. Whatever floats his boat. I think the critics are jealous.</p>
<p>Only $10-$12/hour?! Sheesh… I am seriously overpaying my EA. :P</p>
<p>I don’t see anything wrong with what the kid is wanting. Most of the people complaining seem to be drawn to the fact that the kid (or his parents) are able to afford such a luxury. Just because you’re a college student shouldn’t disqualify you from receiving any benefit that you or your family are able to afford simply because others might have a problem with it or are unable to afford it.</p>
<p>I say let the kid have his assistant. It’ll teach him a lot about employment practices and how to manage people.</p>
<p>One of my D’s middle school teachers told her the he would pay an international student in his dorm to do his laundry & clean his room. I doubt he was paying the at-that-time-equivalent of $12/hour. At least this kid pays a decent wage! :)</p>