Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

I believe you can raise a family on an EA salary whether alone or with a significant other. Always buy the most expensive health insurance you can afford. You should have 3 savings accounts - retirement, rainy day, and emergency. Retirement is your 401k, CDs, cash, etc. Always remember, the best things in life are free!

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

DECEMBER 18, 2013

I will answer your questions by addressing your entire email and I will answer from two perspectives - 1) I used to and still sometimes work in a recruiting capacity and 2) as a job applicant and EA. And anyone can email me questions and I respond only via this blog, not to your personal address. You can just write “Thx!”

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Besides, as I was told when I was looking at the dismal entry-level salaries being offered when I graduated, and my Dad was wondering aloud why he had paid $$$ for a degree that wouldn’t get me much more than minimum wage (I wanted to go into book publishing, go figure), I shared the quote I got from the university’s job office.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Time to think about the retirement fund.&# “We get to retire? No one ever told me that…&# We both know there’s no retirement fund in what we do. When their readers don’t actually know what they do, because they never visit the site, they simply open Google Reader or their email for the RSS feed.

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