Luck, they said, always
comes unexpected. You must always be prepared to welcome it because If you are
not ready when it comes knocking at your door, it will turn its back on you and
knock on your neighbor’s door.
When I retired from work
and could not find another way to earn income, I thought I will be forced to
swallow my pride and live on the dole out of my children.
But just as when my world of
confidence was about to end, a whole new world of opportunities that I never even
thought of, opened up. New Technologies like cell phones and computers, and terms
like globalization and offshore outsourcing's were introduced, and with them comes
the need for virtual assistants.
I am glad I did not stop
learning because my introduction to the computer was in some way a preparation
for the luck that came knocking at my door, the online jobs. I became a virtual
assistant and I started earning again.
If you already knew how
to use the computer, hug your luck, you can be a virtual assistant.
But what really is a VA or a virtual assistant
?
A virtual assistant is pretty much the same as the office secretary or
admin assistant or whoever that works in an office. The only thing that sets
them apart is that the latter does his 8 to 5 job in the office and uses the
office computers, while a virtual assistant does his job at his own pace, in
his own place, and uses his own computer.
If you are a virtual assistant, you work for a
boss that does not see you and only talks to you via the computer, never
personal.
How can oldies fit in as Virtual Assistants?
Oldies
are still goodies. With our years of working experience, we have a lot to
contribute to this world. We may be ready by now to pass the baton to our
children but we can still run the extra
mile. There are so
many things that we can still do, like;
If you were a secretary or an admin assistant before you retired, simple
tasks like internet searching and data gathering will be very easy for you,
If you were in sales and marketing, you can do products write ups, sales
pitch and advertisements,
If you were a copywriter and have writing skills you can submit articles
and if you were doing typing jobs, then you can do Data entry.
These are just examples. There are many more jobs out there that might
just tap a skill that you would otherwise lose. Stretch your brain muscles again, as long as you know how to do the task required, you
will qualify because in virtual jobs, age and appearance does not matter; the
only thing that would matter is your brain and your attitude.
Note ; As of this writing (Dec 2016), author
does not do VA works anymore, busy blogging. Goal now is to be able to leave
our footprints for the next of our generation to read and admire and ... to
smile or to scowl - depends on how our footprints are done.
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