Chapter 02 - The MInute Women's Raison D'Être
Jackie asked a question. “Caroline, before you give me the overview, your email mentioned an opportunity to moonlight. You know that Congressional staffers aren’t paid a helluva lot and with the recent inflation I sure could use some more cash coming in. What were you thinking along those lines.” “Jackie, my plan was to hire people I already was friendly with who would work in a moonlight capacity. In your case, you’re a speechwriter for the Congresswoman who is your boss. You’d be a document writer for us. My thinking is that all those who moonlighted for us would average about 15 hours per week, much of which would be remote work so I wouldn’t monitor it closely. When their regular job made extra demands on them, that would take priority. So some weeks it might be less than 15 hours. The key is that the work gets done and if one member of the group can’t do the work in a timely fashion, another picks up the slack.” “And how much would it pay?” “I’m thinking of a fla...