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There's a related scheme that I've seriously considered a time or two.

I'm a pretty good software engineer, and they pay me very well, but I've got absolute shit executive functioning skills. Task management, remembering to email people back, and the like are challenging to me. It has occurred to me that a full time personal assistant in my area typically makes about $50,000/year. I think there's a decent chance that, with such a support, my own salary could go up by $200k or more over the next couple of years. I've frequently entertained the notion of hiring someone to basically support me in my job without telling my employer, since there's zero chance they'd get me such an assistant and similarly zero chance they'd let me pay for my own.

I wouldn't ultimately do it because, y'know, all the dishonesty involved, but it'd probably be a good deal for everybody involved. My employer gets better work for the same money, my assistant gets stable work, and I get promoted.




I'm interested in the idea as I'm also shit at executive functions. I've never thought about it this way before though.

Sibling comments mentions that delegation should be basic in modern society, but I can't help but wonder why the following is true:

> ...since there's zero chance they'd get me such an assistant and similarly zero chance they'd let me pay for my own.

Instead of allowing everyone to delegate we somehow fixate on getting the all-in-one package super employee. I'm curious if the HR complexity is the reason to avoid this.


You could get a full time assistant for less than $12k/year.[1] Not sure if they work with individuals, but I've used them for my startup.

I'm sure you'd be able to use this.

Not sure if it's dishonesty rather than just wise resource planning?

[1] https://wingassistant.com/


Delegation is the cornerstone of civilization.

<https://sandstorm.io/news/2015-05-05-delegation-is-the-corne...>




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