2003-06-24

If you can think of a reason why I should not do this, email me quickly. Ye gods.

Devoted professional couple with two extraordinary children (a seven-year-old and a four-year-old) seeks two highly intelligent, amiable, responsible individuals to serve as part-time, live-in personal assistants, helping with child care, educational enrichment, and certain other activities, at various times during evenings and weekends. Each assistant will have a private room (on a different floor from the family's residence), with private bathroom and kitchen, in a luxury, doorman apartment building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and will be free to entertain visitors in privacy.

Assistant will be "on call" for 34.25 hours each week, but will actually work on average only 16 to 20 hours, leaving the balance of the "on call" period free for personal activities or relaxation in his or her own room. We would welcome applications from students, writers, musicians, artists, or other candidates who may be pursuing other professional goals in the balance of their time.

Compensation will be at the rate of $19 per hour actually worked (on a pre-tax, fully legal basis); payment will be guaranteed for a minimum of 17.125 hours per week ($325.38/wk), with extra compensation (at the same hourly rate) paid for any work beyond this minimum. Three weeks of paid vacation will be provided per year, no charge will be made for rent, and health insurance will be provided. These are year-round positions for which we would ask a minimum two-year commitment.

If interested, please email resume.

[Edit: a friend responds, "Within three weeks, you will find a plausible reason to want to kill your employers." Good point. My mother said the same thing. Would I really want to be on call for two years? I think if ever I want to take care of children, I'll have a few myself. Alas, the high pay & free rent are not to be.]

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