Jessica St Pierre tells us what it’s like to be an Executive Assistant.

Jess is also an Autistic Advocate. You can connect with her on Instagram here. And here is her art page.

Transcript:

Thora:    00:00:11    Hi, and welcome. 

Adam: Welcome. You’re listening to Autism On Shift. 

Thora: I am Thora 

Adam: I’m Adam. 

Thora: What we do here is we talk to autistic folks about what we do for work. So they’re on shift. Get it? But we also want to shift the way we think about what people with autism are capable of. Exactly. Yep. 

Thora: So today we are talking to Jessica St. Pierre, Jessica has been, um, actually we’ve spoken to Jessica once before.

Adam: We have, so welcome back. 

Thora: Yes, welcome back.

Adam: Thank you so much for joining us again again, right. 

Thora: We totally didn’t mean to waste your time, but, um, for the listeners, Jessica so graciously agreed to hang out with us again, because she was our very first interview and we completely sucked as hosts.  

Jess:    00:01:09    That’s not true. Um, I don’t think that’s true, but I didn’t listen to the recordings of, I’ll believe you guys, but I’m glad to be here again.

Adam: Thank you. And you’re very kind.   

Thora:    00:01:17    Thank you. We appreciate it. Um, so Jess is an Executive Assistant and she’s going to tell us all about what that means, and then we’re going to ask her some seriously personal questions. 

Adam: Yeah!

Jess: Should I be scared? 

Thora: No, no, they’re not personal. We’re talking about work. 

Adam: How many teeth do you have? 

Jess: Even I don’t know the answer to that. 

Adam: See, that’s the right answer. That was correct. We need some sound effects. 

Thora: Uh, okay. So, um, so tell us about the life of an executive assistant. What does your day-to-day look like?  

Jess:    00:01:57    Um, my day-to-day consists of a bunch of different tasks that are not necessarily related to each other. Um, as the, uh, the word assistant says I’m, I’m there to help an executive in this case. Um, it’s my boss. So she’s the owner of the company I work for. It is a, um, doula agency. So basically, yeah, it’s really exciting. It’s actually really fun. So basically my boss has this team of doulas who she sends, uh, to customers who need help with prenatal and postnatal, help, whatever. So I help her out with, uh, creating systems or, you know, helping the doulas, get in touch with the clients, but also, you know, making appointments for her. You know, it’s a bunch of little tasks, there’s a lot of administrative, uh, paperwork as well that I help her with. So yeah, my work is kind of all over the place.  

Adam    00:03:08    That’s great though. You don’t want to get bored and doing one thing over and over again, although some people do like that.  

Jess:    00:03:15    Yeah. I do enjoy some of my tasks more than others, but, um, for me it really keeps it fresh and I was, uh, kind of explaining to you guys the last time I do, I do fee