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Once one gets to a certain level of being highly scheduled and more demands on their time than they can deal with:

- Pre-screening

- Making travel arrangements based on known preferences

- Setting up meetings with other people who are hard to reach and also have busy schedules

- Following up on various things

And so forth. Not that I'm at that level but my understanding is that executive assistants can be incredibly helpful.

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> Once one gets to a certain level of being highly scheduled

If you can afford it, you can start doing it before you get too busy. In fact you can do it as a means of staying less busy (at least work/chore-wise).

To a degree. Most people wouldn't be able to get away with having an assistant handle things like meeting schedules.

You'd be surprised. There are companies that you can outsource that kind of work to. You can also get a decent personal assistant for $200-300/month.

Golf handicap: a number which reflects how many hours a week the holder spends in the office.

(Even when I was a summer intern, I shared an admin who gave me leverage: she played phone tag, tracked down pricing and availability from vendors, and told everyone who was not explicitly whitelisted that I was "in a meeting." But we also had offices with doors back then too, so maybe it was a different world?)

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