College Kids Today: Personal Assistant Wanted

If and when you went to college, did you go hoping to find that special someone?

Charley Cooper is looking for that at Georgetown University, although his requirements for who would be in his life include things like that person filling his car up with gas, doing his laundry, setting his appointments and shuttling him to and from class. Cooper, all of 19, isn't looking for love, actually, but a personal assistant.

In the past, the amenities one hoped to have at college were things like hot plates, mini-fridges --  and if you were really lucky, a brand new bicycle to tool around campus on, given by some beneficent relative or acquaintance.

Cooper (that's him in the photo), the Georgetown Voice (a student magazine) reported, posted the ad last week:

"As my PA you will receive an email once a day by 9:00 am with a task list for that day and a time estimate for each task. Important tasks will be bolded on the list and must be done that day (even though everything on the list should theoretically be finished on a daily basis). At the end of the day you will send me an email telling me what tasks are incomplete or that all tasks have been completed."

Of course he has already been the subject of criticism with the barbs directed at his being just one more of the "wealthy kids at Georgetown who can't do anything for themselves," the Washington Post writes.

And after a weeklong flurry of "balloon boy" coverage, the idea of "is this a hoax?" has already blossomed, but we'll only find out once the lucky PA is hired, no?

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