Comments on: Personal Assistant

By: Marsha Cargill

Marsha Cargill — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:58:28 +0000

Hello,
I have been a personal assistant before in which I helped w/ many different administrative projects. Some of these projects included writting checks for her, coordinating her schedule, formatting her books, finding interesting articles among her topic, and all the day to day things in which she did not have the time to do. I am very reliable, honest, and she also relied on me to be completely honest w/ my schedule while she was on a business trip. I will be sending my resume but I wanted to mention some things about me. I am very good at getting other people organized in which it is very natural for me. I am very punctual and I do live very close as I am a 4 mins. walk to Mass Ave. near Central. Not sure if this is relevant but while in the Navy my “boss” had so much on her plate and that it was up to me keep the day to day things organized. This inclued various types of administrative issues such as reminding her of things that would come up suddenly.

I’m guessing that some of your social parties are among people that tend to be vain. I’m not saying this in an insulting manner but I do know what that is like when I have worked for my stepmother’s art gallery and she would participate in High Poin (furniture market) in which some of these artists would attend elaborate parties. So a brief description of what I look like because I don’t have that many pictures of me on my computer. I just never get around to taking pictures of me. I’m Korean and some people think I am petite. I guess nowadays a woman can never be thin enough. Only joking.

I speak English fluently without any Bostonian or other type of accent.

I will send my resume to the above e-mail address. I do hope to hear from you.

Sincerely,
Marsha Cargill

By: [Name Removed]

[Name Removed] — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:44:51 +0000

My services are $25 @ hour with a $100 minimum per day. I can do everything you requested. I’m a 44 year old male who lives on the cape. I can commit to 2 years, seven days a week. Must be paid cash, no 1099, no taxes. If interested call me at my personal cell.

Note from James — After publicly posting that he wanted to paid in cash so he can cheat on his income taxes, this person posted his name and telephone number, both of which I have removed. I wonder if the IRS reads things like this.

By: Christine Lapierre

Christine Lapierre — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:57:18 +0000

You can be hilarious, sarcastic and grammatically challenged. My age disqualifies me from being anything other than your personal assistant and I will be perfect at those tasks except for making your bed. I’m an early bird, love to drive and commuted to my job all my life (I lived in Los Angeles for 14 years and flew international out of JFK).

I’m the oldest of six so the demands on me for responsibility, dependability, performance and accountability run deep. I was married for 32 years and flew for 39; longevity is one of my strong suits. I’m also bossy. Like you, I can’t stand incompetence at the hands of the totally inept. I know how to do things and do them right. My father’s famous teaching theory is “Do it right the first time.” Shall I go on and on?

I wrote and self-published a travel book and had a web site to go along with it. I owned a business with my husband that we bought for my step daughter which turned out to be a big mistake but an invaluable learning tool. In spite of tremendous adversity in the past I am never depressed; sometimes blue but never sad. I take no Rx drugs for mood elevation and I’m a bookworm. I am currently reading How God Changes your Brain and The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Taleb. So far this year my favorite book has been The Scent of Desire. I only buy the NYT on Tuesday to read the Science section. When I flew I read it daily.

One of my favorite ways to get to know a city is to read the local paper’s Letters to the Editor to see what people think and feel passionately about. Letters also indicate level of intelligence and education. I had the most stimulating job in the world. I was in a different European city weekly. Not only was it visually stimulating but simply walking around smelling, listening and tasting another culture is hard to beat.