[Hitch]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

Does your assistant need to be local to you?

NO, praise jesus and pass the ammunition. Most of my "crew" actually don't have to. The bookmakers by and large are contract, working a book at a time, so to speak.

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(The telecommuting allows me to hire folks that otherwise couldn't take the job. As a Vet, I like to hire my brothers and sisters that served, that maybe can do this job, but couldn't get a regular gig if they had to drive, dress-up, etc. I had a guy with Asperger's, same thing. Helps them, helps me.)

In fact, the 4 folks currently on the interview schedule are, lessee, one in San Salvador, a young lady in the Carribean, an Italian gentleman (who is grossly overqualified, but, he's multilingual and that's always a plus here), and a lovely lady in Sydney, AUS.

It's really not that I have a dearth of folks. It's the training period that sort of makes me almost rather keep up the 16+ hour days, rather than bite the bullet and hire/train someone. :-)

Although I've spent a lifetime with pretty fabulous working stamina, I've reached the point at which I now fade earlier, and I can't do those marathon weeks/months, like I used to, not at ALL. When I look back at how little sleep I got, on a major 5-star hotel that I built a few decades back...while also doing domestic stuff...I seriously wonder how the hell I did it. Now, the idea of facing the damn grocery store makes me want to take a nap, LOL!

All that just means that unbelievably, it's just now only a WEEK since she had her last day. I'd say that I'd be surprised if I last at this pace for another. I'll break down and try someone first. That's my best guesstimate of what will occur. (And then...it'll take me a month to train 'em. [deep sigh]). The only thing I truly hope for is that they don't last just long enough to get trained, but also long enough to decide that they don't need to take this crap (from our clientele). They ALL burn out, eventually--bookmakers, admin, etc.--but I hope that this one will last as long as the last (just on 3 years). Don't misunderstand--I don't allow the clients to abuse them, not at all. It's just...it's a wearing business, it really is.

I've retained a GUI and forms expert, to help us try to simplify everything, to make it easier for the clients to help themselves, I guess. Or to make what we hand out less confusing, or...whatever. Maybe that, plus some other things I'm doing will make it easier to work here. shrug.

We'll see.

Hitch