10 Things You Love And Hate About Virtual Assistants

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What do you love and hate as a virtual assistant? Virtual assistants are the front runners of every small and large business. We operate individually or in a team there are always reasons why we love and hate the job we do.

Here is a list of reasons you should love and hate about being a Virtual Assistant. Here are 5 reasons you should love being a virtual assistant and 5 reasons why you should hate it.

5 Reasons You Should Love Being a Virtual Assistant:

1. Love your working hours because it gives you time to do other tasks.

2. No dress code.

3. No office gossip, bickering and politics. Working for yourself or a virtual has a lot of benefits from doing business as usual and not relying on emotions all the time.

4. Work anywhere you go when internet service is available.

5. Great pay. Virtual assistants are paid hourly, fixed and retainer’s fee.  You can command to get paid by projects too. 

Here are 5 reasons you should hate being a virtual assistant:

6. Working anytime can be misunderstood by family and friends. Virtual assistants are like 9-5 self-employed entrepreneurs. The idea of getting your attention anytime and anywhere gets abused.

7. Constant distractions from home and the environment wherever you go. You want to focus on your tasks. Sometimes you get distractions from noises and people all around you.

8. Balancing work, house work, dog and people duties. 

9. Not dressing up routinely. Sometimes I forget that I should treat my virtual tasks like an actual work.

10. No time limit. Learn to log in your hours honestly. You could lose money, focus and not being able to manage your time well.

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