Editing The Pen Addict 244/transcript (section)

== Pen Chalet ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' From RelayFM, this is The Pen Addict, episode 244. Today's show is brought to you by Pen Chalet, Blue Apron, and Squarespace. My name is Myke Hurley, and I am joined by Mr. Brad Dowdy.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Hey, buddy. How's it going?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Good. Did you get any Valentine pens?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I did not get any Valentine pens this year. I got some pretty sweet Valentine's candy. I like the strong dark chocolate stuff, so I always get a good batch of the dark chocolate stuff. But that was about it. We take it pretty easy on Valentine's.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We don't do anything.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I mean, I think that's probably the right move. It's just, you know...

'''Myke Hurley:''' Our birthdays and Christmas and our anniversary are all too crammed together. But Valentine's Day is just like, we just can't. We just can't.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, like our anniversary is in December, along with Christmas, so, you know, we're rolling out some pretty big things during that time. So Valentine's is just like, hey, cards and candy, which is great. Just what we name.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Cards and candy.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay. So how's the Valentine's Day in your inbox right now? It should be an inbox party based on the link I just saw tweet out before the show, which is... It was something interesting. Number one, RelayFM is hiring. Number two, you have a URL slash jobs on the page. RelayFM.com. And thirdly, you have a jobs at email address. Like, this is a thing. Like, did you... When did you see this coming from Relay's perspective? Like, we'll get into the pin stuff in a second. But this all just happened, what, 20, 30 minutes before we started to record? Yeah. I was like, uh-oh, Myke's going big time here.

'''Myke Hurley:''' In August of 2016, we decided that we needed to hire an assistant.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And after a particularly busy and tough Christmas season, from a workload perspective, we kind of put the gas on. And if you've been hearing me talking about time tracking, this is why I started time tracking. So I could work out how many hours does it take me to do things that we think an assistant could help me do. And we're confident that we have the amount of hours that we wanted. And we've now put up a job posting for an administrative assistant. And it's Relay.FM slash jobs. This is just... I'll be honest, I feel like I just want to vomit everywhere right now.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Because this is just one of those things where it's like, okay, here we go then. I guess we're going to hire someone? Yeah. So we're looking for somebody part-time on a freelance basis. We can do... I reckon we can hopefully give about 8 to 10 hours a week of work. Especially in the beginning when somebody will be kind of working with me to learn the way that we do things. We have some projects we want them to complete. Yeah. This person will basically work mostly with me from an administrative perspective of trying to help me just wrangle our systems and our calendars around sponsorship.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Cool. It's very daunting. Congratulations. Yeah. Congratulations are in order.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I didn't put the email account into airmail because I just don't want all that email with my email. So I downloaded the Gmail app and it's on my phone. My phone is in another room. But the Gmail app is sending notifications to my watch. And there's kind of nothing I can do about this. So they're coming in. If it keeps happening the way it's been happening over the last 10 minutes, I'm just going to take my watch off and just deal with it. Yeah. This is going to be like, this is one of those funny things where it's like, I need somebody to help me lighten my workload, but I have added significantly to my workload in the hopes of trying to make this better.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. Right. And you just need someone to hold your hand to get through this until it's done. Yeah. Then it'll be all better.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I need an assistant to help me hire an assistant.