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Well now you have two problems. With a personal assistant, you'll need to provide very detailed instructions for success. The list of items you list for your
by teepo 5y ago
Well now you have two problems.
With a personal assistant, you'll need to provide very detailed instructions for success. The list of items you list for your PA will take roughly the same amount of time as actually just doing the work.
Drycleaning, handling returns, that stuff is easy. But if you're like me, that's only 10% of what you need to get done.
I'm wired similarly, have tried PAs, and I try to use services that have a PA aspect to them. (StichFix, Uber, wedding coordinator) -But unless you're putting in the work to really get value and automate the things you need a PA for, you'll find yourself just shifting the boring tasks to dealing with the PA, and shift the problem.
- JohnBooty 5y agoCould/does it get better with time and effort? I imagine that at first, it takes longer and/or more effort to offload tasks to a PA. This seems fairly obvious. But it also seems likely to me that over time you could come to a great relationship, where they get your needs and routine, and there is a big savings of time and effort. The problem IMO is that unless you’re making big money or the company is paying for one, having a full time PA is just well out of the question financially. And there are logistics issues with part time PAs serving 4-5 people, I’d imagine.