Student Organizer Assistant

Student Organizer / Personal Operations Assistant

Part-time, Redwood City and Menlo Park area, in-person plus remote. $25/hour, 5-10 hours/week to start.

The honest pitch

I'm a physician who runs a small concierge sleep medicine practice on the Peninsula. I'm very good at the deep work: diagnosing the sleep problems other clinics couldn't crack, writing, building things. I am measurably worse at the shallow work that keeps the deep work possible: calendars, follow-ups, paperwork, the forty small loops a week that each take six minutes and collectively eat a career. I'm hiring a sharp student to be the person who closes those loops.

This is not a fetch-coffee job and not a medical job. It is an organization job with real responsibility, working directly with me, no layers in between. If you do it well, you will end up effectively running the operational layer of a physician's professional life, which is a strange and genuinely useful education.

What you'd actually do

A normal week looks like some mix of: keeping my calendar and task list honest and chasing the items that try to escape; turning my voice notes and scribbled intentions into tracked, completed actions; wrangling documents, scanning, filing, finding the thing from March; prepping and tidying the clinic spaces in Redwood City and Menlo Park; running occasional local errands; doing light research and summarizing it in plain language; and building small systems, checklists, templates, trackers, so the same problem never needs solving twice. Some of it is mundane on purpose. The job is follow-through; the mundane parts are where follow-through lives.

Who thrives here

You're a current student or recent grad, organized in a way your friends rely on, allergic to open loops, comfortable saying "you told me to remind you about this, so I'm reminding you," and unbothered by tasks that are beneath no one because they simply need doing. Discretion matters: you'll handle personal documents and devices, and confidentiality is absolute and contractual. No healthcare background needed. Reliability outranks brilliance in this job, though I'll happily take both.

Who shouldn't apply

Anyone who needs daily direction, finds reminders awkward, treats "I forgot" as an explanation, or wants patient-facing clinical work right away. (That said: if the role fits, there's a real path toward clinic operations and a paid clinical apprenticeship with sponsored certification. Several of the most useful skills in my practice can be taught; conscientiousness can't, which is why it's the thing I'm hiring for.)

Logistics

$25/hour, part-time, 5-10 hours/week to start with room to grow. Scheduling is flexible around classes. Mix of in-person (Redwood City / Menlo Park) and remote. You'll need reliable transportation to the Peninsula and to be 18+ with a high school diploma or equivalent.

How to apply

Ten minutes at https://agent.eusomnia.org. Strong applicants receive a short paid work sample, then a brief interview and a paid trial session. No cover letter theater; the application asks two short questions that tell me more than a cover letter would.