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.