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... to use East's Lack of Something to improve West's Own Thing.

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I have been working as a freelance virtual assistant since January of 2010, I started during the times of hardship and despair and the first few days can seem overwhelming. Like any other new assistants, I was lost in obscurity. I don't know what to expect, the first few days was the hardest.

What is SEO? - I started with no idea. All I know is posting blogs, I didn't know that was the services my first client is looking for. He hired me with all the training materials to start with. But it took me a week to finally understand what SEO is. For my training, watching videos, study all the tools to use, he is paying me US$100.00 a month, that was about PHP4,000.00. It wasn't so bad because I have done nothing but watching training videos. After my training days, I worked 2 hours a day and he paid me US$250.00 a month.

It was then I got the courage to apply as Link Builder to one of the BPO (Outsourcing) Companies here in the city, to gain more knowledge and skills. And maybe focus on being a freelancer. This company started hiring workers over two years ago with exceptional knowledge in Search Engine Optimization. And to those who had the hardest time searching for jobs, grabbed this opportunity.

Before that, I was working as a Customer Representative in one of the highest paying companies in the city but resigned in exchange to being a virtual assistant and just receiving PHP8,000.00 a month, 8 hours a day and 5 days a week. Through test of time, I was starting to feel the chill in my bones, as the balance of equality and fairness shifted to those who commanded the Dollars. Taking advantage of some of the talented but not so fortunate individuals to improve their own situation. I found myself frustrated as I feel the ice-cold effects of depletion of my pride as an individual and as a human being.

Unfortunately my Link Building Career in the said BPO company lasted for a little over four months. It was the most difficult challenge I faced. It was also the time when my first client in my freelancing career put my services to an end. One week later, got an email from someone who is willing to hire for my services, without hesitations for both sides, we have agreed to start the business right away. Now I am receiving over 100% more than what I am receiving from the said BPO company.
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The Third Night... Nothing Fractures Like Failure!

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... Still working as a VA. Even with my previous job, working as a call center agent, I was already a VA. That was the time that I started living my live as a VA, as in VAmpire. Since then, I started calling myself as Desmodus Rotundus.

The third night of my training... I started to lose my sense of time. And for the past two (2) days, I even forgotten what an actual traffic jam looks like and how it feels like to sit through one. A dejavu, a feeling as though an event has occurred once before, a new situation one has witnessed and experienced previously. With all these thoughts in my mind, I was given a task, a task to transcribe a video. I was able to complete the task like thirty (30) minutes after the given deadline. In short, it was late. I was then told to see Wilrose for my Email and Calendar Management task. She showed me how to create events. With an hour of statement to make things comprehensible, I still FAILED - not able to pass the exam. I didn't even follow the instruction. I once remembered when she told me that she can give score as low as zero (0) and as high as perfect score. With this, I know what I got. I was totally KAPUT!

Nevertheless, Van told me that I did well in some tasks, which is pretty normal to say to a trainee to boost self esteem and to feel proud of yourself, a good strategy. I admittedly say I was once a runt, not only physically but the weakest of all others. VAT changed me, anyhow... and getting used to the place and fleshlings here.

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First Night as a VA Trainee

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The first day on a new job is a lot like the first day of school. You have to find the bathroom, cafeteria, (smoking area), etc. Many new college graduates say that the first day of work is the hardest, because they don’t know what to expect. But this is not my first job, it's my third. Somehow I know what to expect.

That first day can seem overwhelming, but knowing some basic workplace rules helped me survive the day (I mean night... hehehe). As it goes, it was somewhat ... okay (tired...yawn).

Let me start from the beginning. My friend got her salary from her client and she invited us for lunch. It was around 10:00 in the morning when I got up from bed, took a shower and hopped to meet them at the mall. We were four and ordered an 18-inch pizza at Yellow Cab in one of the Malls here. It was already 4 O'clock in the afternoon when the three decided to watch "Sex And The City 2". I have no other choice but to go with them. It was already past 7:00 in the evening when we decided to go home, so I rushed my way to my boarding house and should prepare for my first day at work.

Sat in the taxi's passenger seat being driven to work on this Monday evening, many thoughts were passing through my mind. I was far too nervous and was also thinking not to be late as usual which is something I did not want to happen on the first day. This day has finally arrived and there's no turning back.

Miss V, or should I say Ate Van and Joven gave me a tour of the place and introduced me to everybody. They were of course super friendly and eager to add new member to the team, and then, we were "SUPERFRIENDS". I also got excited on what the company is building.

My computer was setup fairly quickly and from there I started my training. I was introduced to TeamworkPM and getting to know the website and to learn how to use Teamwork as our Project Management tool. I was instructed to sign up to Gmail and use it as credentials and create two blog accounts - one with Wordpress and the other with Blogger.

That was tiring and that was because of the activities I did before I went to work. I should probably try to do some more and explore things. All in all though, I am getting on well here. It will just take some time before I am settled in.

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Career

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Position
General Task Virtual Assistant
Link Builder

Status
Probationary - Terminated
Freelancer

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