Welcome back to Working Over Time, the advice forward, Best Editing Oscar to Working's Best

Director. I'm your host Isaac Butler. And I'm your host, Isaac Butler.

And I'm your other host, June Thomas.

June, this is normally the time when I ask you

how you are doing, but we just recorded

a regular episode of Working two hours ago,

so have there been any major life changes in the last two hours?

No I went outside for a walk but I did not have a massive artistic epiphany or any other kind of epiphany so no that's too bad mhm so what

are we talking about today well over the holidays we got some messages from our

listeners and I thought we'd sift through the old mailbag and take a couple of them out for a spin. What do you think?

Oh, that sounds amazing. Let's do it.

The first comes from a long-time listener, Mark, who has a really good question based on one of our recent episodes.

Dear Working, I'm at the stage of my career that you've described a few times.

I have so much work to do related to many creative projects.

My wife and I also manage a busy family life, and together this long list of tasks is not

doable by two people.

As you suggest, I've been trying to hire help for a while and it's

turned out to be much harder than just finding the money to do it. My question is

once a person decides to hire help what then we have some funds to

dedicate to this purpose but they're not unlimited and they need to cover a lot of

ground in any given moment I need help with scheduling,

corresponding, running random errands, etc.

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