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Answering Reader Mail: Green EA, Green Executive

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

You answer the phone, book travel, offer beverages to guests, book meetings, prepare the conference room, order food, etc. If you are out sick, a temp will have to sub for you. Are they type A and super organized so they like lists printed out so they can carry it around or do they like information only in digital form?

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Answering Reader Mail: Career Progression, Wearing Different Hats, and Realistic Expectations

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

The amount of skill, pressure, stress, and problem solving differs at each of those levels. EA work is typically admin work - phones, travels, calendars, expense reports, mtgs/luncheons, etc. So do some soul searching, thinking, and determine how much longer you can function with a 60 hour work week so you can form a game plan!

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Which Person Would You Talk To?

Men With Pens

It’s like stage stress, before walking up on a TV show or a big opening act. You recently wrote in a medium that’s probably more familiar to our readers: an article about your home in Miguasha that was published in National Geographic Traveler as one of the world’s 50 destinations of a lifetime. People respond to humans.

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