Being on Top

Everybody wishes to be on top of the world. A successful career, wealthy living and to become famous. Why not? It’s the reason why we study hard and why we wanted to give a better education for our children. Me for instance, I grew up from a poor family and my parents did everything they can just to give me and my 2 siblings a good education. Even though were not the riches family, still we are happy and my mom always gives us a lecture regarding the power of prayers. She usually says “don’t forget to pray, it always works”. Now that I’m in the process of learning my way being on top, you can’t help but bump into some crabs that think you can’t make it. But I don’t damn care, as long as there’s important people like my family, friends and loved one's who believed in my true worth I can prove those crabs wrong. I admit I’m not as intelligent, as experienced and as competitive as others portray they are but I know where I stand. I don’t need to step on others just to make my way easier, I work on my own and I work hard. I don’t need to be insecure because I’m receiving all the support I need on a daily basis. Yes, it’s not as easy as I expect it to be but as I remember it correctly, I once answer to a manager on one of my job interview that “there’s no easy job”, which makes me land that position . Honestly speaking I’m ashamed to be called the “General Manager” specially the fact that I’m appointed, because usually you need to acquire the talent. Maybe I can’t blame others to be jealous just because they are dying to be in my position at this point in time. Others as I call them think that I don’t deserve to be where I am now. I guess being lucky comes up with being nice, honest and trustworthy. You’re being rated by your conduct from the very start you dreamed of being on top.

My Profession by Choice: A Single Mom and a Virtual Assistant

I’m a 27 yrs old single mom with 2 kids.  And life is not as easy as I dreamed it would be when I was younger. But don’t get me wrong, having beautiful children makes me complete.  And there always comes a time that your given choices that would affect your life personally and professionally.  I’m just a regular invoicing staff from a manufacturing and distributing company back then, and one day I’ve been offered by a friend to be the assistant of her fiancée.  Mr. Leo von Wendorff is an entrepreneur who’s starting his own business, Outsourcing Broker.  I’m familiar with the booming business of outsourcing here in the Philippines, but being a Broker? What does it do? Or rather what will I do? A lot of terms coming from my head that I don’t know.  I’ve been offered a Laptop, free Internet connection, home based job and with much higher compensation that’s unarguable, which obviously made me accept the position. But here’s the catch, being a simple employee doesn’t need you to speak the English language fluently and proficiently, atleast not in my position back then.  And its not the hardest part there is, I have a very low self esteem, so everytime I chatted with my new employer , “Bigboss” Mr. von Wendorff as I usually call him has to boost my morale. It always amazes me when he do that, and you can’t find that kind of employer anywhere.  He trusted me more with my ethics rather than my skills, because as he said skills can be learned through hard work, while ethics are born within yourself.  While I’m in the process of developing a lot of knowledge in the virtual assistant world, I can’t help but think how far I would last to this.   I enjoy much quality time with my kids because I’m working at home but at the same time I received a lot of noise and disturbances because of working at home.  But the challenge I’m facing in being a Virtual Assistant is on how I can cope up with a very intellectual person, Mr. von Wendorff, he always get things done and he share all of his knowledge and skills in terms of internet technology. He himself became a virtual assistant that’s why he understand the process and guides me all throughout.  Now, after months of working for him I’m getting hold of my emotions further and make it a point that I get my ego up all the time.  I’ve improved my low self esteem problem and trying to be the General Manager in the making.