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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She  doesn’t have a college degree FYI. She watches Netflix and barely does her work. Is this the new trend?  How do you people get these high paying administrative gigs?  [/quote]

I'm an EA making six figures without a bachelor's who watches a lot of Netflix. I do all my work that comes in, in a timely fashion. I pause Netflix or whatever I'm watching, and switch to music when doing work. But a lot of time I'm just monitoring my Inbox.[/quote]

How do you get into a cushy role like this? I can pay my entire grad program tuition with a FT job  salary like this.

Another one is “digital marketing strategist”. It’s one of those other cushy roles that pays slackers well.[/quote]

I am not the PP, but I was an EA who topped out at 110k. What is described above is basically how I did it for 10 years, with the last 3 years being "grad school" instead of "Netflix." I got the job through a friend from college who worked in the billing department of a BigLaw firm. I started out as a general admin assistant and worked really hard to find a permanent assignment with someone I liked working with. The work isn't difficult, but it can be both stressful and time-consuming. A lot of that depends on where you work and who you work with. I worked for people initially who had terrible boundaries and required a lot of after hours work or personal assistant work vs. administrative assistant work during the day. Ultimately, I was the EA of 2 partners in slower practice areas. I was responsible for more, but because it really was "monitoring inbox" a lot of the time, I went to grad school. I was up front with my boss the whole time because he and I had a good relationship. I finished school and helped him essentially transition my job out. The firm wasn't using the 1 assistant:2-3 attorneys anymore at that point.

As to how I got the role, when I did the job, it required a college degree, a good typing test score, and solid references. It was pre-2008 collapse so everyone was still going great guns hiring a ton of people. I doubt anyone would be able to replicate the trajectory since "legal secretary" is becoming less common and "executive assistants" can mean a lot of different stuff depending on company culture. [/quote]

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