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An Honest Review of Get Friday and Abroad Assistant
I went from working solo to having two virtual assistants at my beck and call. How did it happen? Did it work?
A month ago or so, I decided to read The Four Hour Work Week after seeing it in so many recommendation lists on Medium. I had been reluctant to read the book because I had thought it was the same old cliche about some guy becoming a millionaire nomad, but the book was better than that.
What made this book good, in my opinion, is that Tim Ferris’s advice was immediately backed up by real-life examples with very specific tools and tips anyone could apply to their own situations. It was also very smart of him to feature other popular essays at the beginning of his chapters, for example, “My outsourced life” by A. J. Jacobs.
I love Jacobs’s writing. His stories are so engaging, interesting, and funny. “My outsourced life” was no different. It was about his experience hiring virtual assistants from India, written humorously almost like a sitcom episode. With limited attention span, I dropped Tim Ferris’s book halfway through to finish Jacobs’s article and immediately looked into how I could outsource my life too.
I had to give credits to Tim Ferris’s book (I did eventually finish it) for inspiring me to…
