College Student Seeks Personal Assistant

College is hard. So how can one make it a bit easier? Hire a personal assistant of course!

Georgetown University sophomore Charly Cooper decided he didn't have to struggle through the challenges of balancing classes, homework, a part-time job at a financial services company and all his personal responsibilities, including helping to care for a relative with cancer. He had options and he was going to exercise them.

So, last week the 19-year-old logged on to the school's employment Web site and posted an ad for someone to take on "some of my everyday tasks," reports The Washington Post.

Cooper laid out the job responsibilities in detail. "As my PA you will receive an email once a day by 9 a.m. with a task list for that day and a time estimate for each task," Cooper wrote. "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."

Tasks would include chauffering him to and from work, scheduling haircuts, organizing his closet and doing laundry (although the PA would only be paid for the time spent loading, unloading and folding clothes, not the entire laundry cycle).

The lucky assistant would earn between $10 to $12 an hour for three to seven hours a week, although "on occasion it will be possible to work additional hours and/or receive bonuses at my discretion."

As you can imagine, the reaction to the ad has been wildly mixed. While some condemn Cooper as a rich kid unable to balance everyday life, others defend him for trying to do what he thinks is best.

"Listen, I think if there's a market for it, and someone wants to do it, all the more power to him," Corey Sherman, 20, a junior international politics major who has two jobs, told the Post. "Maybe he just wants the personal touch -- knowing the human being folding his underwear."

Personally, I can kinda see it both ways. What do you think?

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