What we are experiencing right now with this Pandemic Crisis is giving us a blow back real hard! All works are cut offs, no malls to provide you with your necessities not even to calm your stress away. No gatherings to attend to catch up with your loved ones, and the most important of them all, the Tourism Industry had gone very low, the only thing that you are always looking forward to after the stress and pain that work has put you in. Indeed, this is a Crisis that will be talked about for decades. But the question is, how can you cope up with all of this? How can you provide food for your family without even going to the actual company and work? Is Cash Assistance and Relief enough for the Family to survive? I don't think so. Besides, we can always never rely on the Government for us to survive the Pandemic because we ourselves must look out for our Family to survive. Then Savings will be kicking in this time. How important Savings are that we only realized it's worth just now. But is it enough? They cut off our way of living and yet bills are piling up! They extended its due dates, some are offering loans for us to take just so we can survive at this point, but how about the Long Term? At the end of the day, it is still bills that we need to worry about not to mention the daily expenses that we will be accommodating to survive.
In the New Normal, work-from-home set up arises. Most of the people are investing in buying gadgets, laptops and Desktops because the New Normal embraces the Virtual World. Classes are supposedly online, paying bills gives you the luxury to do it online as well, even buying Groceries and Meats can be online nowadays. That's the power of the Online World, it gives you the luxury to provide ease in your everyday lives in the comfort of your own home. So, with regards to working, why can't we choose online as well? As time goes by, being a Virtual Assistant is the best option for us to live and be mindful of our health safety nowadays. Who would have taught that there is a career that you can do right in your very home? What does a Virtual Assistant do anyway? Is it legit? Is there such a thing as that? How can you earn from that? How does it work? These are the questions that I always hear when I talk about it. I'll narrow it down for you just to give you an idea:
· Being a Virtual Assistant is like an Executive Assistant in an Office Setting so just think about all the work that an EA is doing.
· Performs tasks that an Administrative Assistant or Secretary would normally do, but this time you do this all in your home.
· Depending on your skill sets or past jobs, some Virtual Assistant might do bookkeeping, conduct online research, provide Social Media Marketing for your company or maybe they are BPO’s who work from home and this helps you to raise your hourly rate. Yup you heard it right! As a Virtual Assistant, companies pay us hourly and most importantly, they pay us in dollar rate as well.
· Virtual Assistants are often independent contractors which means they work for themselves and the company is their client.
· Virtual Assistants can generally work for multiple companies at once.
So, you see, why can this offer not be better for us nowadays? Why can we try if we can do this instead of Binge-watching on Netflix or stared at Facebook for more than half a day without earning anything? Working from home can never defy who you are or even lower your self esteem just because you’re not like everyone else who normally would get up at 4am or even (3am if your work is far away) just to be at work at 8am. The truth is, it is our secret desire to come out of this Office Setting and be with our family all the time. Which person does not like working and providing for their families without even thinking of traffic that they will experience while on the way to work every single day? Which person does not like a work that follows what time he only wants to work?
Contemplating on all of this made me realize one thing, no one can defy you as a person. No one can never say that you can only do this, you can only do that, but instead the mindset that we must have is “what if I did this?” What if this will be better for me? With all that we are experiencing right now, we must work smart instead of work hard. Because at the end of the day, the most important thing is how you can provide for your family. How can you help your father to retire already for example? How can you get a job now that the company that you’re working for years cut you off already just because they can’t handle the sustainability of the workforce?
To all the people out there who are included in the workforce society, stop whining and stand up for yourself. Think of the ways on how to cope up with this trying time and aim for a better you. If you want to be a Freelancer just like me, there are ways to do that and to do it properly and professionally as well. I started when I began enrolling for Filipino Virtual Assistance for a Freelancing Course. This is actually a must -have if you’re a newbie such as myself. All of their Coach will be happy to assist you all throughout. After this, you are good to go! At least you are not hesitant to start fresh because you provide a foundation for yourself already. It’s always better to start correctly than to start easily.
To the Entrepreneurs out there and so as the Department Heads, do not hesitate to hire a Virtual Assistant today! We can let your businesses focus on your core competencies. We can provide services that can ease your workload in your business and enhance marketing strategies all in the four corners of my home. As a VA, I can help improve the product and services you offer in the market by being your eyes and ears in the market and throughout your customer base. Feel free to browse my website: Curitana Virtual to know more about what can offer you to ease your way in your very own empire.
In this “New Normal” that we are facing right now, let’s try to uplift ourselves for us to be better in our lives and to continue growing as well. You can never harm someone who is growing but instead worry about someone which is becoming stagnant through the years. Aim high Everyone!
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