My helper is a girl who has modeled for me. By coincidence, she and her boyfriend moved into the next building. She is an epileptic and has not been able to hold down a regular job. Working for me turned out to be ideal for her because she has good days and bad days, and on the bad days she can't work, which has been the reason she hasn't been able to hold down jobs. As for me, as long as the work gets done within a reasonable period of time, I don't feel a need to crack the whip and hold her to a strict work schedule.
As a point of interest, she has gotten full disability from the government, which amazingly only allows her to earn $30 or less per month. At first, she said she didn't think she could work for me anymore, but I finally said, "You can't accept money. Okay, I'll pay you in stuff."
Every week we total up how much she's earned at $7.50/hr and I go out and buy her a gift certificate for a music store or a book store, for example. Then, she writes little reviews of everything she buys (on her own time) which I put together in a file for a little local entertainment and review site I'm working on as a way to turn my entertainment expenditures into business expenses. So, she works in my office, gets stuff she enjoys, and it becomes an expense for my entertainment site (not her labor, the items she buys).
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