All the stress coming from the holidays, family emergencies, and the recent hospitalization of a family member sucked the energy out of me since last month. I must admit, I took pains to start the year 2008 bright, optimistic, and well-planned, but certain events can really stop us on our tracks.

But I won’t dwell on that. To start off the new year with good vibes, I would like to share how I started out as a Virtual Assistant, and I am quoting from my website:

Eliza has more than five (5) years of experience working as an administrative and executive secretary in her ten (10) years of offline employment history in the corporate, government, and NGO sectors. While working fulltime, she pursued her graduate studies in Law and became a fulltime working mom, wife, and law student. But in 2005, while she was heavily pregnant with her second child, she made the difficult decision of giving up regular employment for health reasons as doctors found a possible congenital defect on the baby. It was then that she decided to become a work-at-home mom. She first started out in the content writing business as part of a team of writers for a UK-based company, but later on left the team and became a project hunter for writing services. Later, she landed a home-based business transcription job.

Realizing that with her years of work experience in varius capacities and acquired skills, she believed that she can build a business of offering offsite administrative services to those seeking support for their business. Researching the Internet, she came across several websites owned by established Virtual Assistants and found that this is exactly the right kind of business for her. In 2006 she launched VA 24/7 Services where she first accepted her very first client as a VA. In 2007, Eliza decided to change the business name and Virtual Workdesk was born.