And since I've already thrown out wedding planner, (another option:
SeaWorld Trainer!) I figured I might as well mention: Personal Assistant! Honestly, ever since I saw the Devil Wears
Prada. I really just like the whole planning thing, and I love
Blackberrys and carrying around a planner and a notebook at the ready to record my celebrity/real estate agent(hello Jeff Lewis!)/magazine editor's every word. And I tend to work best under pressure. Call me crazy.
Of the essentials any assistant should have, I'd say a Blackberry is at the top. It's a phone, which you'll need in order to communicate with your client and their cohorts. But also, it moonlights as a calendar (also good for planning), a place to send and
receive email ( a route of communication some people use more than phones), a
texting tool (very big with celebrities. And the Blackberry is great for
texting because it has a full keyboard), something to use the
Internet from, a place to write tasks you need to do or notes to yourself, a place to instant message someone, a place to hold your addresses (the many you'll have in your arsenal for your client, i.e. Bobby the hair guy, Tina the make-up artist, Ted the car guy, Carrie the dog girl, etc. etc.), a camera (2.0
mega pixel! More than my dad's first digital camera! =), a calculator, and an alarm! It's pretty much
SuperPhone!
Every single assistant I've ever seen (on TV of course) carries a notebook around with them. I mean Blackberry's can do everything and anything, but when you're trying to write " Tell Simone I'm not going to approve that girl that she sent me for the Brazilian layout. I asked for clean, athletic, smiling; she sent me dirty, tired and paunchy. And RSVP yes to Michael
Kors' party, I want the driver to drop me off at 9:30 and pick me up at 9:45 sharp. Then call Natalie at Glorious Foods and tell her no, for the 40
th time, no, I don't want
dacquoise, I want tortes filled with warm rhubarb compote. Then call my ex-husband and remind him that the parent/teacher conference at Dalton tonight. Then call my husband. Ask him to please meet me for dinner at that place I went to with
Mossimo. Also, tell Richard I saw all the pictures that he sent for that feature on the female paratroopers and they're all so deeply unattractive. Is it impossible to find a lovely, slender, female paratrooper? Am I reaching for the stars here? Not really. Also I need to see all the things that Nigel has pulled for Gwyneth's second cover try. I wonder if she's lost any of that weight yet" then it is best to write like the wind, not type into your BB. Jessica and Team Griffin from Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List? Check! Emily from the Devil Wears
Prada? Check! Jenny from Flipping Out? Check! They all have small(
ish) black notebooks to write down everything in. Personally, I hear
Moleskine notebooks are the best. And I particularly like the one above, it's called the City notebook, and it has maps of a major city in it, plus blank pages, and tabs, and clear things to put over a map to trace your route. I, of course, would choose the LA one, because if you're an assistant chances are you live in
LA.
And lastly, if you are a personal assistant, chances are you will be dodging paparazzi. And for that you will need some killer shades =) $5.80
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I saw that movie, The Devil Wears Prada, and since you're considering a career as a personal assistant, I'll cross my fingers that you don't get a boss like Meryl Streep! (She might call you Andrea and not Ally)
If personal assistant is your dream job, I feel that you're aiming way too low. In fact, you probably don't even need to go to college for that. What you should strive for is the person who has a personal assistant. From what I can tell, you seem like a very creative and intelligent person, so you should shoot for the stars. Get your bachelor's degree and then a masters and then go get that job in which you not only need a personal assistant, but also a driver and executive administrator.
Signed,
Not Your Dad, but possibly Bill Gates or Paul Allen, and definitely not any of Kathy Griffin's assistants.
Wedding planner?.....Personal assistant?......I think we need to change your major! :)
I thought about being a Sea World trainer, too lol!! But then I remembered I don't like swimming with animals :B
You can be my personal assistant if you want. But I can't pay you much :(
The salary of a personal assistant won't pay for your interest on your student loans much less the principal.
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