I work for a gas utility, and we have a relatively healthy work environment and try to retain people. If someone is competent they will be given opportunities to grow, do promotions or lateral moves if it gives them more future possibilities. I know a few folks that started as low as meter reading and ended up in supervisor or managerial roles. I myself was given an opportunity to join the company doing data entry and ended up doing project management.
The artist who posted that horrible personal assistant ad was Tom Sachs, and now Nike has dumped him
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No. You don’t want that. I mean, you may have to put up with a lot of metaphorical shit from an employer like this, but you don’t want the literal stuff.
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Funny thing is, back in the 1990s I was working on a high-profile project (think: demo to the Joint Chiefs) overseen by a Deputy Undersecretary of Defense. This guy is sort of middle management for the civilian federal government. I worked a lot with his assistant as well as with him. The ad quoted above describes the job requirements for his assistant to a T, except of course for the last sentence. He absolutely could not have functioned without her, and he absolutely knew this. It was a relationship of deep mutual respect. I’ve never seen anyone as competent as she was…including him. People who are capable of acting at this level are invaluable. (P.S. The demo worked without a hitch. My project was promptly deployed to Bosnia for two years and I never found out about that until years later.)
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As long as the salary’s upwards of $200K annual with good benefits (including dental and offgrid vacations) I’d take that job.
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