Outsourcing Your Entire Life

Big corporations have seen the financial benefits of outsourcing, but according to this article in Esquire, individuals can enjoy the less stressful life that shipping tasks overseas provides. The writer of the article hired a firm from India to handle administrative tasks at first, but the relationship took on a new meaning when the tasks shifted to the “personal assistant” type. Before long, the writer was having the company representive handle all personal interaction. It’s fascinating.

I find myself testing them, asking them to perform increasingly bizarre tasks, inching toward abuse of power. Read “The New York Times” for me. email me a bunch of questions from “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.” Send me a collection of Michael Jackson jokes (e.g., “Why was Michael Jackson spotted at Kmart? He heard boys’ pants were half off”). I keep pushing, but I haven’t yet found their limits. The closest I got to a no was when I made the admittedly odd request that Asha play the card game hearts for me, since I was wasting too much time playing it myself on my PalmPilot. Asha replied that she thought this was a “good idea” but that maybe she would do it after finishing the other projects.

From there the author, A.J. Jacbos, attempts to outsource therapy sessions. Later growing tired of finishing the article, the author outsourced the piece’s closing sentiments to the firm.

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  1. Comment #1 by UncommonWay (reply)
    October 13th, 2005 at 6:08 pm

    I see a black market for school homework problems—pay your personal assistant to do algebra, biology, and calculus work for you. Ooh, I might outsource my blog, and just kick back and relax. And then I’d get a personal shopper to buy stuff for me on eBay. Of course, since these blogs are about “personal finance,” paying somebody to do that might be a tad ironic.

  2. Comment #2 by Ranjan (reply)
    October 17th, 2006 at 11:38 am

    Odd and funny. Outsourcing is fine only when you are aware of your core responsibilities. Which can be finding the purpose of your life, creating a sync within your mind, body and soul or evn becoming a billionaire.
    Without that, it’s plain silly.

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