In this April 9, 2019, file photo, pedestrians walk on the campus at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif.
Jeff Chiu/Associated PressFor $50 an hour, you can be a personal assistant for a “high-net-worth” Stanford student, which sounds like good work if you can get it.
Read more of the job listing, however, and you’ll find what essentially appears to be a position for a butler or parental figure. The listing was posted through Lambent, a “niche staffing firm with a focus on personal and executive assistants.” A Lambent representative confirmed the authenticity of the job listing to SFGATE.
The job listing went up March 24 on Indeed and has since gone viral on Twitter for the strenuous requirements necessary to be this person’s personal assistant.
“Student living close to campus seeks support in her personal life and with house management,” the listing begins innocently enough. The dream candidate must be “kind, compassionate and patient, with his or her own sense of authority.” You must also “anticipate and tackle issues without explicit direction.” (It should be noted that the $50 per hour pay rate is a $5 per hour increase from when the posting first went viral Wednesday.)
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— Charlotte Bancroft (@TheodorAwhoreno) March 30, 2022
The posting gets stranger the further you read. Not only do you have to run errands, manage the person’s calendar and drive her around town, but you also have to take her cat to the veterinarian and be her liaison to her landlord and “contractors/repairmen.”
You also must possess “previous experience assisting a high-net-worth individual” — so no one who primarily interacts with middle- or working class people should apply. And you need to be this person’s therapist, or at the very least “naturally provide emotional support.” You’re also on-call.
On top of all the aforementioned requirements, you must have a college degree.
The listing, naturally, got pilloried on Twitter, with one person expressing skepticism about a position with “high hourly rates on a part time job” and another writing that this job posting “should be an expellable offense.”
But people also defended the listing for its hypothetically exceptional pay (you’re looking at $52,000 a year for a part-time gig, assuming that you’re regularly working 20-hour weeks) and the fact that it’s the “least worst job offer” for a caregiver position that has gone viral on Twitter. Which is a fair point: At least this posting is not as ridiculous as that Silicon Valley nanny job listing from a couple years back.
March 31, 2022 In this April 9, 2019, file photo, pedestrians walk on the campus at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif.Jeff Chiu/Associated Press For $50 an hour, you can be a personal assistant for a “high-net-worth” Stanford student, which sounds like good work if you can get it. Read more of the job listing, however, and you’ll find what essentially appears to be a position for a butler or parental figure. The listing was posted through Lambent, a “niche staffing firm with a focus on personal and executive assistants.” A Lambent representative confirmed the authenticity of the job listing to SFGATE. The job listing went up March 24 on Indeed and has since gone viral on Twitter for the strenuous requirements necessary to be this person’s personal assistant. “Student living close to campus seeks support in her personal life and with house management,” the listing begins innocently enough. The dream candidate must be “kind, compassionate and patient, with his or her own sense of authority.” You must also “anticipate and tackle issues without explicit direction.” (It should be noted that the $50 per hour pay rate is a $5 per hour increase from when the posting first went viral Wednesday.) bro pic.twitter.com/DMqCAEsP6d— Charlotte Bancroft (@TheodorAwhoreno) March 30, 2022 The posting gets stranger the further you read. Not only do you have to run errands, manage the person’s calendar and drive her around town, but you also have to take her cat to the veterinarian and be her liaison to her landlord and “contractors/repairmen.” You also must possess “previous experience assisting a high-net-worth individual” — so no one who primarily interacts with middle- or working class people should apply. And you need to be this person’s therapist, or at the very least “naturally provide emotional support.” You’re also on-call. On top of all the aforementioned requirements, you must have a college degree. The listing, naturally, got pilloried on Twitter, with one person expressing skepticism about a position with “high hourly rates on a part time job” and another writing that this job posting “should be an expellable offense.” But people also defended the listing for its hypothetically exceptional pay (you’re looking at $52,000 a year for a part-time gig, assuming that you’re regularly working 20-hour weeks) and the fact that it’s the “least worst job offer” for a caregiver position that has gone viral on Twitter. Which is a fair point: At least this posting is not as ridiculous as that Silicon Valley nanny job listing from a couple years back.