How to Become a High- Profile Personal Assistant. In “The Assistant Economy,” Dissent Magazine analyzes the privileged and idiosyncratic career path of “personal assistants” who serve a single high- profile professional, often in a creative field, in a job that often provides no direct promotion opportunities (a movie director can’t train you to replace them) but plenty of indirect ones. A few practical tips: To get hired, get aggressive.

These idiosyncratic jobs often aren’t advertised publicly. If you want to assist a famous artist, writer, or director, find any way to interact with them.

New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik found his assistant when she approached him after a reading. As White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove hired an assistant who had organized a seamless visit for him to the Harvard campus. Unfortunately, this approach gives a hefty advantage to those who attend elite colleges or grow up with family connections.

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If you’re lacking both, you’ll need to find ways to distinguish yourself, and keep an eye out for any potential employers visiting your area for talks or conferences. Be ready to do anything.

In “The Assistant Economy,” Dissent Magazine analyzes the privileged and idiosyncratic career path of “personal assistants” who serve a single high-profile. After more than a year, Game of Thrones has made its very welcome return. It was a reasonably quiet episode, by which I mean at least 50 people were still murdered.

Here’s an advantage for the less elite applicants: Emphasize your willingness to do any task, like running personal errands (which you’ll inevitably be assigned anyway). Assistants get breathtaking access to the inner workings of creative industries, but only because they have to handle all the attendant details. This includes a lot of managing your boss’s ego. To move on, get aggressive again. The personal assistant role is an unusually dead- end job, since it’s unusually closed off from the larger workplace, and since the manager is at the top of the field, not one rung up the corporate ladder.

It’s in an employer’s best interest to keep the assistant around forever, and some will get very selfish about it. So when it’s time to leave, you need to do the work of finding your next step. The Assistant Economy Dissent.

Let's Talk About Tonight's Long- Awaited Return of Game of Thrones. After more than a year, Game of Thrones has made its very welcome return. It was a reasonably quiet episode, by which I mean at least 5.

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The cracks in Jon and Sansa’s relationship have already begun to show. Bran finally returns to the south of the Wall. Cersei is about to make an alliance that is going to go immensely badly for somebody.

Arya’s Westerosi Murder Tour continues unabated! And most importantly, Daenerys Stormborn has returned to Westeros, and retaken Dragonstone, place of her birth and the ancestral capital of the Targaryens. Dany is ready to get started taking back what is hers, but the great game’s final round has already begun. So: What did you think about the episode? What didn’t you like? How do feel about Arya having lunch with Ed Sheeran? And, most important, what you think will happen in the six (sob!) remaining episodes of the season?

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