Personal Assistant - part time, long term, freelance

Welcome! This is a long-term, personal assistant, part-time job, approximately 2-5 hours a week for $17-19/hour. I have a strong preference for someone in the Pacific Time zone, but would consider Mountain or Central. Eastern would probably only work if you are a very late night person (e.g. available until 11pm, midnight or later, at least for communication).

The tasks are mostly:

1) phone calls (e.g. doctors offices, chewy, amazon, etc.)

2) computer/website tasks (e.g. search for types of products, information, etc.)

3) then there are random tasks

Many of the tasks might only be, for example, 2, 5 or 9 mins, but there are a number of them (1-10 per day approximate) while some days there isn't anything. Sometimes there might be something for 20 mins or 40 mins (or longer). Some things I know ahead of time and some things I don't, so some of the tasks are "on call" as things come up in a day for you to respond to and take action on that day.

While there is flexibility, some things will need to be done on a certain day and during specific hours (e.g. morning business hours or something like that).

In most instances, it is ok if you have not been a personal assistant before. I'm looking for someone who's responsible, dependable, trustworthy, detail-oriented and probably easygoing. The key is to be *available* for help/assistance weekdays (mostly) and weekends (some).

If selected for an interview, more details about the position will be freely discussed/provided. After an initial interview, there is a possible option to communicate with the person currently in the position.

Prior to an official offer, I will require 2-3 professional references, even though this is for a personal assistant position. Please know I will contact the references you provide.

If you are interested, kindly answer the following questions, all of which are related to the position in one way or another.

1) What appeals to you about a personal assistant position?

2) In the foreseeable future what reoccurring commitments/appointments do you currently have such as caring for children, school, babysitting, church, other PT or FT work, or something else?

3) Is there a typical time frame when you go to sleep and when you get up?

4) When is your phone off?

5) Are you more of a talk, text or email person? If you had to rank the three by your preferences, what would that be?

6) What type of personality do you work best with? (Please don't say "any")

7) How do you respond when you are dealing with someone who is stressed/late/behind?

8) If you don't know or understand something do you try and figure it out, or ask questions?

9) If you had a personal assistant, what qualities would you want in your "right hand gal/guy"?

Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you!