Anonymous
Post 06/22/2012 09:26     Subject: I want to work 25-30 hours a week and make $50k...
don't count on finding a fed job and then going part-time... in offices I'm familiar with that won't be approved, especially now, if a full time hire is made, that's what's needed and expected. we have turned down requests to go P/T.
Anonymous
Post 06/22/2012 00:38     Subject: I want to work 25-30 hours a week and make $50k...
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Become a personal assistant! I contract out at $60/hour. I work more than 30 hours a week but I work at night (shopping online), on the weekends, and maybe 15 hours on-site during the week. I gross about $120k/year, and I have another job on top of that. It's amazing!



Do you shop for your clients online? Interesting.. What do you buy? I'm genuinely curious, since I don't know much about personal assistants other than the ones who work in the office.


LOL I am waiting for one of those ads like this


Anonymous
Post 06/22/2012 00:37     Subject: I want to work 25-30 hours a week and make $50k...
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Become a personal assistant! I contract out at $60/hour. I work more than 30 hours a week but I work at night (shopping online), on the weekends, and maybe 15 hours on-site during the week. I gross about $120k/year, and I have another job on top of that. It's amazing!



Do you shop for your clients online? Interesting.. What do you buy? I'm genuinely curious, since I don't know much about personal assistants other than the ones who work in the office.


LOL I am waiting for one of those ads like this
Anonymous
Post 06/22/2012 00:37     Subject: I want to work 25-30 hours a week and make $50k...
I work 2 full days a week and make $60k. In I.T.
Anonymous
Post 06/21/2012 23:59     Subject: I want to work 25-30 hours a week and make $50k...
Anonymous wrote:Become a personal assistant! I contract out at $60/hour. I work more than 30 hours a week but I work at night (shopping online), on the weekends, and maybe 15 hours on-site during the week. I gross about $120k/year, and I have another job on top of that. It's amazing!



Do you shop for your clients online? Interesting.. What do you buy? I'm genuinely curious, since I don't know much about personal assistants other than the ones who work in the office.
Anonymous
Post 06/21/2012 23:50     Subject: Re:I want to work 25-30 hours a week and make $50k...
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I know someone who works about 15 hours/week and makes about 75k. He comes to work mostly to surf the web, have lunch with friends, play sports with colleagues and do non-work things. Never spends more than 5-6 hours in the office and is in the office 4 days/week. Only has a bachelors.


Is he really supposed to be working 40 hours a week?


Yup.


And he can optionally telework but still comes in to fool around.
Anonymous
Post 06/20/2012 21:55     Subject: Re:I want to work 25-30 hours a week and make $50k...
To the lady who said she "works 20 minutes while she lays in bed", is that part of the work? (sex?)

And, damn I should have been a lawyer. Thats good money for working 30 hours per week.

nurse practitioner working 30 hrs per week making 70K
Anonymous
Post 06/20/2012 11:27     Subject: I want to work 25-30 hours a week and make $50k...
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Become a personal assistant! I contract out at $60/hour. I work more than 30 hours a week but I work at night (shopping online), on the weekends, and maybe 15 hours on-site during the week. I gross about $120k/year, and I have another job on top of that. It's amazing!



How many clients do you have, where do you find them and do you charge some kind of retainer or bill hourly? Thanks for any info you are willing to provide.


I bill hourly, I should do a retainer but I loathe billing and I have a really great system in place right now. The figures I listed above are off of one client. That can fluctuate, usually upward, because it is hourly.

I have one other main client and I track his online reputation. Then I do some SEO and other stuff on a very limited part-time basis for two other people--they get billed for maybe 6 hours a month. I make an additional $40k/year off those clients, I could earn more from them but I don't want to work more at this point. I don't really feel like I work a lot because I am such a great multi-tasker. So I probably work 40 hours/week total and I can pull that off with only 30 hours of childcare/week. It's because I work while I grocery shop, I work while I cook, I do twenty minutes of work a night while I lay in bed. Piece o'cake.



What kind of training did you do to do the SEO work?
Anonymous
Post 06/20/2012 10:50     Subject: Re:I want to work 25-30 hours a week and make $50k...
Anonymous wrote:I work 15 hrs a week and bring in over 50k. I own a tutoring business. I could work more hrs but choose not to.


How much can someone working for you realistically make? I have an ivy league PhD in a social science and BS and MS in highly quantitative field.
Anonymous
Post 06/20/2012 10:03     Subject: Re:I want to work 25-30 hours a week and make $50k...
I'm a lawyer too and I work 20-25 hours a week and make about $60K. At my previous full time job i was making $160K. I'd love to make more but the flexibility I have and lack of stress is priceless.
Anonymous
Post 06/20/2012 08:00     Subject: Re:I want to work 25-30 hours a week and make $50k...
Anonymous wrote:I work 15 hrs a week and bring in over 50k. I own a tutoring business. I could work more hrs but choose not to.


I'd love to hear more about your background and how you started your tutoring business.
Anonymous
Post 06/20/2012 01:14     Subject: I want to work 25-30 hours a week and make $50k...
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Become a personal assistant! I contract out at $60/hour. I work more than 30 hours a week but I work at night (shopping online), on the weekends, and maybe 15 hours on-site during the week. I gross about $120k/year, and I have another job on top of that. It's amazing!



How many clients do you have, where do you find them and do you charge some kind of retainer or bill hourly? Thanks for any info you are willing to provide.


I bill hourly, I should do a retainer but I loathe billing and I have a really great system in place right now. The figures I listed above are off of one client. That can fluctuate, usually upward, because it is hourly.

I have one other main client and I track his online reputation. Then I do some SEO and other stuff on a very limited part-time basis for two other people--they get billed for maybe 6 hours a month. I make an additional $40k/year off those clients, I could earn more from them but I don't want to work more at this point. I don't really feel like I work a lot because I am such a great multi-tasker. So I probably work 40 hours/week total and I can pull that off with only 30 hours of childcare/week. It's because I work while I grocery shop, I work while I cook, I do twenty minutes of work a night while I lay in bed. Piece o'cake.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2012 23:52     Subject: I want to work 25-30 hours a week and make $50k...
Anonymous wrote:Become a personal assistant! I contract out at $60/hour. I work more than 30 hours a week but I work at night (shopping online), on the weekends, and maybe 15 hours on-site during the week. I gross about $120k/year, and I have another job on top of that. It's amazing!



How many clients do you have, where do you find them and do you charge some kind of retainer or bill hourly? Thanks for any info you are willing to provide.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2012 23:36     Subject: I want to work 25-30 hours a week and make $50k...
Become a personal assistant! I contract out at $60/hour. I work more than 30 hours a week but I work at night (shopping online), on the weekends, and maybe 15 hours on-site during the week. I gross about $120k/year, and I have another job on top of that. It's amazing!

Anonymous
Post 06/19/2012 23:21     Subject: Re:I want to work 25-30 hours a week and make $50k...
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I know someone who works about 15 hours/week and makes about 75k. He comes to work mostly to surf the web, have lunch with friends, play sports with colleagues and do non-work things. Never spends more than 5-6 hours in the office and is in the office 4 days/week. Only has a bachelors.


Is he really supposed to be working 40 hours a week?


Yup.