College student needs personal assisitant?

[KAMLEM]

Pay parking tickets? How many parking tickets does this person get that paying them is part of his/her regular routine?

I was thinking the same thing about organizing his closet. Does he come home and mess it up every day?

 

[freckles and boo]

My first reaction was to giggle. I carried a very heavy load in college and my closet was never clean. I have no idea what my excuse is now.

However, there are people with physical disabilities who need assistance with the day to day stuff.

 

[Imzadi]

So what? If he can afford to pay for it (or his parents can) why not? Hey, he's creating a job for someone else and that's a good thing.

Agreed. It's called delegating.

I notice that picking up "the employer" from work is one of the tasks. If he has the money to hire an assistant, why not quit working and pick up the dry cleaning himself?

Just because someone has money doesn't mean they aren't learning how to make more money. It's called wealth building.

Now if this person has the life skills of Jessica Simpson, who also needed a personal assistant because she was never taught how to pick up after herself, that might be a different matter. However she, too, has the money to hire someone to do that stuff for her as her err - skills lie elsewhere.

 

[MrsPete]

Just because someone has money doesn't mean they aren't learning how to make more money. It's called wealth building.

I'm not buying it. Not unless this person is working as a model or something similar (and making mega-bucks doing it). If this person has a regular college job (food service, clerical, etc.), then he or she'd be better off dropping the job and doing his own chores.

We, however, don't really have enough information to make a judgement call on that.

 

[tasha99]

Seems like a good idea to me. I'd do it if I could afford it. I just quit my job though because of school (worked as an undergrad, but I have too many hours where I'm required to be in class or working in the clinic to keep a M-F daytime job).

My first purchase when I get hired as an slp is going to be to hire someone to help me clean once every week or two.

 

[georgina]

I'm not buying it. Not unless this person is working as a model or something similar (and making mega-bucks doing it). If this person has a regular college job (food service, clerical, etc.), then he or she'd be better off dropping the job and doing his own chores.

We, however, don't really have enough information to make a judgement call on that.

I believe the original ad said the person had a part time job in the financial services industry.

 

[Huggles]

If he/she has the free time to make out a list of things to be done, highlight priorities and then to e-mail it by 0900hrs, then I would assume some of those tasks could be done in the time it took to make the list. I mean, surely the bed making, closet organising can't take more than a minute?

 

[barkley]

i've often thought someone could make some decent money being a 'rent a mom' to the college students in the university town we live in.

unless someone's a commuter to it the norm is for the students who live on campus or nearby to not have cars so they rely on walking or using the bus to go to the local buisnesses that are'nt immediatly adjacent to the campus (which includes the grocery stores, pharmacies and such). it might not be much of an issue when the weather is nice but it gets very cold and snowy here so i imagine it can be difficult at best if you're not organized enuf to co-ordinate your errands. if a student is ill the campus clinic is close by but i can't imagine having to walk (no bus service available) to the nearest pharmacy to pick up a perscription or to the grocery store for 'sick food/supplies'.


since dh went back to college f/t i'm even more convinced this could work-i look to the stuff i take care of for him and think to ask him about so i can take care of it or make sure he remembers to do it and i think a 'rent a mom' could benefit most students (ask periodically if they need more supplies, special items for courses-and pick them up, remind them that their day to register for next quarter is coming up so they need to nail down what classes they want to take, remind them when buy back for books starts/ends, look to their schedual and set up 'maintainance appointments'-hair, dental exams, set controls/calendar when they need to arrange for travel if it's going to occur during a break...). i think it could benefit their parents as well-if out of area parent wants dd/ds to get their 'favorite' cake on the birthday 'rent a mom' can arrange it, if out of area parent wants to know if there's a cheaper local alternative to an item/service they are footing the bill for 'rent a mom' knows the lay of the land and can provide the info (and i KNOW there are cheaper, superior alternatives just a block away from the insanely priced hair/nail/tanning salons near the university those co-eds frequent they just never venture out to search them down).

 

[Imzadi]

I believe the original ad said the person had a part time job in the financial services industry.

Then he might be pulling in $2000 a month. He can well afford to pay someone else to do the work. If he rolls out of bed at 4am to watch the Tokyo & Hong Kong markets, he is well into his day & probably doesn't head back to the bedroom to pick or, nor does he want to, before heading to classes. For all we know, he may have a double major in addition to that part time job.

 

[disneyhand]

My daughter, who is a high school freshman, has a personal assistant. She does her laundry, drives her to school, keeps her room clean, makes sure she has all of the school supplies she needs, keeps her calendar organized and makes sure that she gets to her swim practices and swim meets on time and with a fully loaded bag, takes care of any bills that need to be paid, library books that need to be returned, etc.

She calls her MOM!!! ............P

Do you earn $12 per hour for all that too? If not, revolt and start a Mom Union