I am a Mom, a wife and a daughter.I work at home
I am a movie buff
I love anything pink.
I love Nagaraya :)
Here's my story.
I used to work as a pioneer Processing Executive at the Data Processing center of "The World's Local Bank". After 8 months of being an agent, I was promoted to a team lead position. At that time I am already married but since I am very much focused on my career, no babies yet.
After more than a year of being a team lead I was again promoted to a Senior Assistant Manager for Operations. 6 months after my daughter came into our lives. This changed my whole life.
Yes my work is very much financially fulfilling. We can buy anything we want, go places we've never seen, but my work made me miss out on the very first milestones of my daughter. I missed hearing her first word, I missed seeing the day she started to crawl and that struck me. Why am I missing out these important milestones in her life and let a yaya witness it all by herself?!
One morning, I woke up and I told my husband "Mag-reresign na ako" (I am resigning). I won't forget how his jaw dropped in awe and frustration. I never seen him so worried. My husband is a "house-band" taking care of our very small sari-sari store and "bilyaran". I understand why he's sooo worried. Those businesses wouldn't be enough to suffice our daily needs esp with our growing baby.
I resigned. My boss was schocked and at first refused my resignation. However, I explained to him that I've been waiting for 4 years to become a mom and now that dream has finally come true I will not miss out and fail on this.
2 months after the resignation, we moved back to our province here in Aklan. Very small savings, unemployed, nothing.... I remember living in a very very small nipa hut, in the morning our house is converted into a sari-sari store and printing services for students. We would earn 100 - 200 pesos a day. Not even enough to buy my daughters diapers and milk.
So I researched online for homebased call centers. And I found a mom-forum which discussed about being a work at home mom-. My very first client, Ms Dine Racoma, hired me as one of her copywriters. I was writing articles for her. When I got my first pay of 1200.00 I took my daughter and husband to Jollibee for dinner :)
Then I continued my research and stumbled upon ads in craigslist, I was again hired as an "online dating assistant" where I would find look for possible dates for my client. It was fun and the pay is $150 per month. A month after... I stumbled upon odesk.com and that changed my whole life. That was 3 years ago...
So many things happened within 3 years, I used to have a small office in New Washington Aklan with on-site staff working for me. I put up EP Virtual Assistants IT Solutions. I remember our office was just then a small corner right beside our kitchen, then it evolved to nice comfy office. But a year after, I decided to close it out and work solo again.
Now I work alone at home. I have worked with clients from South Africa, France and America. I was privileged to work with Bo Sanchez and Charissa Cawley (a renowned Real Estate Investor in America).
I work at home but I earn $$$$. But the most satisfying thing of being a work at home virtual assistant is not missing on every important milestone of my daughter. I was there when she first took a step. I was there when she first tumbled. I was the one who stood by her during her first hospitalization. I was right beside her in her 3 birthdays.. I was there during her first day of school.
These are much much more valuable than the dollars and earnings...
Now, I live life. And I don't have any bit of regret leaving the 4-corner office in Alabang...