Angelica

Immediately after graduating, I applied and worked for an ESL platform in China where I taught my students basic English materials to help them communicate using English. Right after leaving the company and coming home from a service mission, I started working as a part-time VA for my sister, a freelancer who works for several clients. Most of the work I did and learned from her was data entry, updating store data like SKUs, importing and exporting, and updating Google sheets. I also learned basic transactional data entry and I am adept at using Microsoft Excel through that experience. After that, I got the opportunity to work as a data analyst for an Amazon business merchant, where my tasks were to research and organize necessary data for the store's products and then organize them on a sheet to be reviewed by the manager. I was able to at least grab the necessary knowledge about product research and was able to get to know about tools like Keepa, Amazon Seller Central, Helium 10, Addon, and other tools.

Right after that, I took the opportunity to work as an office clerk in the school principal's office here in my hometown. I did a lot of administrative work for my principal and helped her with her daily tasks, especially when there were requests and incoming and outgoing communications.

While I was working at school, I applied for a lot of jobs online and was able to land a job with a realtor. My tasks were mainly cold calling. I had no experience with telemarketing or cold calling at that time, but I was trained by my kind client about this niche. It was undeniably difficult at first, but with the help and patience of my client, I grasped his teachings through lots of training and good communication.

While in training for the preparation of calls, I was given tasks to research owners' information, especially their numbers, and then we organized them on a Google sheet to easily call the people. I cold-called people and tried my best to incorporate the lessons from my client. While waiting for some sort of update regarding my job, I started doing part-time work for my sister again while she cares for her baby. The tasks were on property listings, and it was mostly data entry using different systems that brokers use.

I honestly love this kind of remote work, not only because it pays a lot more than when working locally with the traditional 8 AM to 5 PM time, but I feel like it gives me more time to learn the job while spending time with family and more time to improve on other aspects.

I am the type of person that would ask many questions rather than assume and make mistakes. Right now, I still feel like there's still a lot for me to learn and master. But through your help and with the experience and knowledge I obtained from my previous work experience, I know it'll be worth it.

I am positive that no matter how hard and stressful things may seem at first, after a lot of trying, they will become a lovely and sweet journey.