Thursday Things — Jan 30th, 2025

"The world’s very first Calendar Pixel Art! 📅"

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Johnny at CCing my EA
January 30, 2025

Thank you to everyone who replied to last week’s newsletter! If you’re curious about the animal results, I’ve shared it in the section right after “Tech Tips”. 👇

In case you’re new here, CCing my EA is a bite-sized newsletter dedicated to Executive Assistants like yourself.

Every Thursday, we deliver a quick email with 5 new job listings, 3 fun posts, and 1 helpful tech tip straight to your inbox. 📬

5 new job listings

  1. Mitra Chem, $90k - $120k, Remote

  2. Autodesk, $70.7k - $114.4k, Remote

  3. Garner Health, $70k - $90k, Remote

  4. Walker & Dunlop, $70k - $90k, Remote

  5. CampusPoint, $125k, Remote

In relevant job news, this CNBC article has been making rounds across the EA community: Family offices are paying executive assistants up to $190,000 a year as demand for talent spikes

3 posts you might’ve missed

#1

Omg this totally struck a chord for me. More like the button everyone needs! 😂

#2

Hallie is the co-founder and coach at The Founder & The Force Multiplier.

She’s hosting a free webinar next Thursday for Executive Assistants looking to level up the trust and confidence they receive from their leaders, colleagues, and direct reports.

I’m already RSVP’d for this webinar, are you? 👈

For context, a “Force Multiplier is a strategic partner for any entrepreneur, an invaluable asset to a Founder working toward building a thriving business.”

#3

If you have any fun stories like this, I want to hear them!

You can simply reply to this email and I’ll receive your response directly. 👍

#Bonus

As you likely know, we design Calendar Software for Executive Assistants.

So, in celebration of the Lunar New Year, we decided to create the world’s very first…

Calendar Pixel Art! 📅

In case you’re curious what inspired this idea, I wrote about the process here!

1 Tech Tip

55 Pages Worth of Templates!

This week’s tech tip is a little different, but this Reddit post seemed so valuable that I had to share it here.

If you’re interested in these templates, be sure to fill out this form so Sheena D. can send them to you! Note that it may take her a while to get back you because she’s received almost 1000 inquires already. 😱

For those without a Reddit account but still want the templates, I received permission from Sheena (u/Jolly-Pea2688) to share the templates with CCing my EA readers. If this sounds like you, simply reply “templates please” to this email and I’ll share the PDF with you.

If you ever need a refresher on past Tech Tips without digging through your emails, they’re all available in a single post right here.

Results from last week…

Recap: Last week, I asked you to reply with your suggestions for animals to represent the Executive Assistant character and their executive in our upcoming comic series about “OMG” stories we’ve received from Executive Assistants.

Results: Interestingly, the Octopus 🐙 was the #1 most suggested animal for the Executive Assistant, followed by the Unicorn 🦄 and Bunny 🐰.

For the Executive, the #1 most suggested animal was the Tiger 🐯, followed by the Bear 🐻 and the Lion 🦁.

I’d love to use the Bear for the Executive because both John and Mike (our 2 co-founders) are from UC Berkeley, whose mascot is also the Bear.

With that said, we received over 30+ animal suggestions, some of which I never even considered (e.g. Pufferfish, Dragon, Sloth, Penguin). So, rather than committing to a single pair of animals, we will likely just end up rotating different animals to incorporate varying personalities.

Thank you to everyone who shared their suggestions, I’ll post another update once we’re ready to launch the comic series :)

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