I’m a work-at-home consultant, writer, entrepreneur and creative type who is looking for an apprentice and assistant to help me grow my business and further my many other projects. The position is in Lake Los Angeles, CA, in my home office. It will start at 30 hours a week, hopefully expanding to full-time or more before very long.

The number one qualification for this job is a relentless desire to learn and be constantly challenged to do new things. Other important qualities are attention to detail, good communication skills (including spelling and grammar), fearlessness, good customer service skills, and a positive and expansive attitude. Honesty and openness are also key. Having your own laptop computer would be good too.

The work will start with supporting me in creating and maintaining websites for clients and myself, mostly using WordPress, but will very quickly expand to cover any number of other tasks relating to projects that I have been preparing for some time in anticipation of finding someone to help grow my enterprise. I’ll also need help with time and project management as we try to best divide the available resources to get the most done.

You should be prepared to develop a working knowledge of the following in a relatively short amount of time (i.e., the first 6 months or so):

-web site development (WordPress, Joomla, HTML, CSS, PHP)
-social media (blogging, Twitter, Facebook, etc.)
-marketing
-fundraising (non-profit and commercial)
-podcasting and web broadcasting
-film/media development (web series, shorts, features; screenwriting, all aspects of production)
-media relations (press releases, interviews, etc.)
-activism (online and on-the-ground)
-event planning
-writing/editing/proofreading
-grant-writing and the other aspects of creating a non-profit from scratch
-digital music production
-and more.

(You don’t need to know those things already, but you should be ready to learn—ideally, even spending time in your off-time growing your knowledge and strengthening your skills.)

The ideal candidate would become an apprentice in the truest sense—learning and eventually taking over my primary business of creating websites for clients and supporting them in their web-related endeavors. I’ve been doing this for several years and am ready to pass on my knowledge—and eventually my clients—to someone else, who would then take over as a partner in that business while I move into new (related) realms and pursue a number of passion projects that have been patiently waiting for my attention. Once we develop a groove together, we would work on bringing in someone else to help take over some of the new work, and on and on as things grow.

If you are not afraid to learn and work independently, and would like to benefit from my 15 years of experience working for myself on the web, my 20+ years of experience in activism, and approximately 10 years of preparing to launch a series of interesting projects into the stratosphere, then you should get in touch. If you are likely to wuss out after a month or two, or don’t have a good appreciation for the value and reward of doing challenging work, you should probably save us both the trouble and go get some “regular” job. This is not that.

If you can survive a year with me, you will learn how to start and run your own business or non-profit, how to get in the newspaper or on national radio, how to create a movie (and a video production company) from scratch, how to make music, write a novel, launch a website, run a podcast, get a grant or venture capital or a sponsor, and more. You will learn at least 20 different skills that have value in the job marketplace, and will have a ready opportunity to apply those skills in a leadership capacity within my existing web freelance business or in one of the side enterprises that we will have developed together over that span of time.

Sound good? Great! Let’s get to it. Get in touch ASAP and show me what you’ve got.