The job sounded promising at first. Part-time executive assistant role. Based in Melbourne. Salary starting from $50,000. “This will be the most challenging and the most rewarding position you’ve ever had,” the online ad promised.
“The opportunity to look inside the mind of a successful, fast-paced, intense, sometimes chaotic, passionate, easygoing, adventurous 28-year-old entrepreneur.”
And with that contradiction-stuffed sentence, began a job listing so ridiculous that there was simply no containing it. From the original listing on employment website SEEK, the ad quickly spilled on social media and into headlines around the country.
“Could this be the worst job in all of Australia?” one twitter user asked.
It certainly sounded like it.
“If you want to clock in and clock out of your job – this isn’t for you,” the ad read. “Expect after hours and weekend calls from time to time. Life doesn’t stop when the work day does – high performers work until their tasks are done, NOT just until the clock runs out.”
Could this be the worst job in all of Australia? https://t.co/TfSjBjP3Nf pic.twitter.com/xHeMomAIUI
— Ben Eltham (@beneltham) January 7, 2019
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Hate to break it to you all but as a high level EA this is pretty standard - they just usually offer more money & don't say all that in the actual ad!!! (& considering the real ad did offer more more money...)
He exists and the ad is still up, amazingly. I agree that it is all "executive jargon", but come on, a job that requires you to handle everything from getting coffee to contract execution? He want Pepper Potts and she's a fictional character.