Hiring Indian "personal assistants"

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Or are they supposed to be on call for you 24/7?

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Any time, day or night, they will do the needful.

[Los Feliz Slim]

I'm sitting here trying to think of things I'd want done by one of these assistants because I love the idea of outsourcing some personal task to India.

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I'm sitting here trying to think of things I'd want done by one of these assistants because I love the idea of outsourcing some personal task to India.

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Are you having any problems which might require calling some company's tech support hotline?

[xxThe_Lebowskixx]

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I'm sitting here trying to think of things I'd want done by one of these assistants because I love the idea of outsourcing some personal task to India.

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Run an E-PUA game on hot myspace chicks and setup dates for you?

[traz]

Having an an indian assitant hit on myspace girls for me actually isn't a bad idea...

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From what I've gathered of the contents of "Four Hour Workweek", the author has an army of these guys working for all different projects of his. I guess one crew maintains an internet company of his, the other manages all his bills/finance, and another girl helps him with friends/family things.

Essentially, the guy has someone to do everything for him in order to maximize free time.

Note: I haven't read the book yet - this is just what I've gathered.

[Point Point]

Can I outsource SnGs, 6-max NL, and 6-max limit, heads up SNGs to four 4-tabling 180 IQ indian math wiz virtual assistants in Bangalore? At 100/hour per player, 4 bucks/hr should be a bargain.

[Ron Burgundy]

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doesn't nation have a bunch of these playing 100nl FR for him?

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The pay people to play scheme has been discussed a billion times and it doesn't really work. I could see hiring someone to datamine though.

If you're a stock trader, you could pay someone to research stocks or read annual reports or whatever.

If you're a student you could have someone do your homework or write papers.

[kutuz_off]

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I'm sitting here trying to think of things I'd want done by one of these assistants because I love the idea of outsourcing some personal task to India.

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You totally missed the point. You should hire an assistant to come up with this list of things for you. Don't waste your precious time on this.

[El Diablo]

All,

Wow, this thread turned out to be pretty worthless.

teddy, here's another good article on the topic - http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe...feoutsourcing/

I mainly agree w/ you that for the bulk of these tasks, being more Internet-savvy will do the job. Between OpenTable and Yelp, I can come up with a place to eat quicker than it would take to explain my criteria to someone and interact with them to finalize the selection. But many people aren't familiar with the right tools to use to find information and get stuff done quickly on the web.

There have been some stories in the media and posted on some blogs about people (mainly freelancer types) who have actually outsourced much of their jobs.

And if you're doing stuff that's relatively mundane/repetitive in nature, I can see it making some sense.

Anyway, locking this thread since the discussion pretty much sucks. Continue discussion on it in the four-hour workweek thread if you like.