Reader, Reader, Reader

"Willing to wear many hats" is not a skill—it's how companies justify underpaying you for doing three jobs.

Let me paint you a picture: Your job description says Executive Assistant.

But in reality, you're also doing event planning, HR coordination, some marketing, a little IT troubleshooting, project management.

Somehow you've become the go-to person for literally everything that doesn't fit neatly into someone else's job.

When you mention this in your review, your boss says, "That's what I love about you. You're so versatile! You can wear so many hats!"

And it feels good, right? For a second. Because they're acknowledging that you do more than your title suggests.

But then your raise is 3.5% and you realize: they just complimented you for doing $180K worth of work while paying you $65K.

You're not some dumby for letting this creep up.

You're a problem solver gawd dammit!

When something needs to be done and no one else is doing it, you step up. That's your nature. #realbosssh*t

You don't sit around waiting for someone to hand you a perfectly scoped project. You see what's broken and you fix it.

That's actually what makes you valuable.

But here's what nobody tells you: Every time you "wear another hat" without a title change or salary increase, you're teaching your employer that they can get more work out of you for free.

And you're too busy executing. Moving from the event planning spreadsheet to the HR onboarding doc to the exec's travel itinerary to step back and realize you're being taken advantage of.

You need boundaries.

You need to know when to say, "That's outside my current scope— are we adjusting my title and compensation to reflect these additional responsibilities?"

You need someone with an expert outlook who can tell you: doing three jobs doesn't make you versatile. It makes you broke and burnout.

The Good News: It makes you three times more valuable than they're paying you. We just gotta fill the gap.

​EA Career Accelerator teaches you how to:

• Audit your actual responsibilities vs. your job description
• Quantify the value of each "hat" you're wearing
• Negotiate for proper compensation OR respectful (and strategically) stop doing unpaid work
• Position yourself for roles that actually match your scope (Senior "Niche Here" EA, Chief of Staff, Operations Manager, etc.)

You SHOULD be doing strategic, multi-faceted work. But it should come with a strategic, multi-faceted salary.

Right now I'm offering founder pricing: 20% off ($797 instead of $997, payment plans are available) for EAs who are done being praised for their "versatility" while getting paid like they do one job.

Reply "FOUNDER" and let's put some respect (and commas) on your name.​
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Christina Torres​
​Chief Creative & R-E-S-P-E-C-T Officer
​Run & Tell That
​w: www.runandtellthat.co e: christina@runandtellthat.co​