hire an assistant or just pay for a bunch of independant services here on WF

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Hi Guys,

Ok; I've been getting a lot of extra work lately (different online marketing contracts). Anyway, I'm swamped, and just can't take this ever increasing work load.

Sooooo... I was thinking of hiring an assistant. I have had assistants at my day job (I have a day job but my boss is really cool and is ok with me taking plenty of side work)... but never one out of my own pocket.

Fortunately where I live, I can get a decent assistant for less than $1k/month (including all expenses). I would mainly plan on using her for content writing, pulling reports, etc. But then again, it's always nice to have someone to send to bring my car to the car-wash, etc.

But I'm not sure.... I keep thinking that it may be better to just hire out different jobs to WF members (link building, writing jobs) Anyway, what are your thoughts? Maybe I should hire someone half time and put the rest of the money to WF member services?

I have my mars in Libra, so I'm notoriously indecisive. Any input will be appreciated.
 


If you're willing to train them and deal with their intial fuck ups in the first few weeks then hire an assistant, it would probably be worth it in the long run since they would be more flexible than somebody who just does articles or just builds links.
 
An in-house assistant is just as good as it gets because not only can they complete all your difficult money-making work but if she's hot she'd probably complete your "pleasure-giving" work too :)
BTW, If you get a assistant, post her titties on here.
 
If you are not already incorporated, set one up, then go to the local community college and tell them you have an open internship position.
 
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Yes, check your local colleges. Check out your state's work study program as well. Here in WA state for profit companies can hire work study students and you get a 65% reimbursement for their wages. It's a sick deal for both the student and you. I've had work study kids for 3 years now and am just hiring my first kid full time now that he is done with school.
 
Just hired me up a Thai student from my university. Does design mostly, but I'm gonna see if I can't get him to do other grunt-work, too.

And his monthly salary is right around 300-400$ USD. I winnnnn.
 
well so far I have received almost 90 CVs in 4 days from one newspaper ad ($70)... and the ad still has another 3 days in the paper.

Anyways... I'm really, really happy about the number and quality of people that have applied.

Thanks for the college ideas... but over here that wouldn't work too well, since most college students aren't very familiar with the English language.

I should have someone for $550-900/month depending on many factors.

Some of these candidates are great, I got one girl with design experience + she would work for writing articles/link building.
 
fuck yeah!

I got one... after going over 150 candidates... I got a well spoken assistant for $450/month (starting salary, probably will give an extra $150-200/month after a few months).

Overal, I had amazing options. Ranging from people with several degrees/languages/programmers/designers. All willing to work for under $1k/month.

But I decided to go with inexperience to train him from scratch... and also because I'm a cheapskate.
 
How is infrastructure in Costa Rica? I've been wanting to work an extended vacation from there (1 month+) but want to make sure I'm ever-connected. Is it easy to rent an apartment with wifi, etc?
 
good internet in any major area. Yes, renting is easy... but you will have to leave a deposit which many times ends up stole. They generally ask for 1 month worth of rent for deposit.

If you want to get your money's worth, pay for one month, give one month deposit and stay two months... use your deposit as your last month's rent.
 
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