I Am the Real Life Huma Abedin

Huma is always at the side of the presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. For this matter, she never breaks a sweat and always seems to be at ease. Interviewers have said that she has done twenty things at once without breaking a sweat, from handing Hillary speeches to picking up dry cleaning and bringing a change of clothes to a rally. She has been described as a quiet woman, but it not quiet when it comes to her work she is there for Hillary in any instance that is required.

I decided to volunteer with a local charity thinking that it would be a good way to add events and such to my resume. I had no idea when I was volunteering, however, that I would become the personal assistant, also known as personal slave to the person that I was working under. This person was the head of the charity, the head of the campaign and therefore felt empowered to ask me to do the most mundane of tasks, things that I am sure the paid staff members refused.

This was great for the experience, but employers can go too far when they realise that one has been hired to appease their every whim, they forget that personal assistants are people too and some tasks are supposed to be completed by yourself, and not a personal assistant. I learned this the hard way!

I was young, as I still am, and I was green. I wanted to learn the industry and therefore I put myself out there to learn everything that I could. The first day of worked I was not only asked to fetch coffee, but I was asked to travel across town to find the freshest croissants. People said that she was going to be a diva, but I had no idea until I started working with the campaign.

It was summer, and I decided to work there on my days off from my regular job. I didn't think that it would be like a job, more like a fun way to gain experience in the field that I wanted to work in. Not only was I fielding personal calls on a cell phone and answering text messages, I was answering emails, shining shoes, and picking out ties for an event that was upcoming. I was hired help; the only problem was that I was not hired! I was not being paid at all for this assistance.

This lasted for about a week. It is a hard life being a personal assistant at the beck and call of someone twenty four hours per day, seven days per week! Needless to say that this was a short lived volunteer career. I am glad to hear that Huma is getting paid a hefty amount, because that is the only way that I would be able to handle being a personal assistant again. They say that Huma never breaks a sweat, I have been in her shoes, and I don't know how she doesn't!