Blind bargain
Which one of “the world’s leading classical singers” is currently seeking a personal assistant to perform the following tasks: maintain the calendar; handle contracts, visas, taxes and royalties; coordinate relationships with agents, publicists, lawyers and accountants; manage correspondence, websites and social media; and, oh yes, “manage all financial aspects of Artist’s career under supervision of Artist?” The position is 9-5, five days a week, with some evening and weekend work, some international travel, and no overtime paid on the base salary of $48,000 a year—which, you must admit, ain’t much for all that work.
Why is an item “blind” if the job description obviously had the artist in question’s initials in the “reply to” email address.
It’s Thomas Hampson. And this is old. It was on NYFA weeks ago (and is no longer).
Yeah, you tell’em!
Like all humans, I’m never off the NYFA website.
Well, you’re not a bitter underemployed would-be singer, so what do you know?
The point is that the item was never blind when someone’s identity was clearly obvious from the beginning. And who cares who is looking for an assistant anyway.
I’m not a singer, by the way. Many friends are, but nope, not for me.
The identity wasn’t obvious, though, was it? It was obvious to you because- round of applause- you saw the original ad ‘weeks ago’.
The number of guesses and speculations would seem to suggest that most of us didn’t.
You’re not a commenter here any more either.
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Yea! I love it when LaC’s vorpal blade goes snicker-snack.
As long as the person Tom appoints knows what to do with Austrian funds when the going gets tough …
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Regarding Thomas Hampson -- from an interview two years ago at http://tinyurl.com/9z9dvyo
I wonder how much his stepdaughter was doing for him besides being webmistress -- now she might be much too busy with her husband’s career (Luca Pisaroni).
Catherine has been doing far more than her father’s or Mr. Pisaroni’s websites for quite a while. She has an entire business doing many, many websites that she takes on the road -- http://www.lennysstudio.com/
Oh well, I guess it is too late for me to make a wild guess of Ms. Margo Channing.
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How does one apply for a job as Signor Pisaroni’s assistant. Now that’s a position a guy could make sacrifices for.