Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

You care less, you’re easily annoyed, you start to do a cost-benefit analysis, you feel resentful, and you feel short changed. The goal is to go from a busy role to one that is absolutely crazy insane busy and stressful to prove you can do it. When you do things for money, it shows. Take personality tests, read books, talk to people.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

APRIL 4, 2013

Tell us your story on how you went from temping in LA to being the EA of high-profile CEOs. I found every single one of my jobs through a temping agency or by referral. I learned through informational interviews that I should apply to temp agencies. So I left that temp gig and went to work for the CEO.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JUNE 11, 2014

And as I was working, job hunting and/or temping, I had to find other sources of happiness. Reduce the stress and annoying things in your life to maximize your happiness. I would rather go to a pilates studio that has classes late at night that fits my work hours vs going to a gym that only costs $30 a month. 3) Have a strategy.

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