I was reading news online this morning and found an article - in there it mentioned Virtual Assistants

10 More Jobs You can Have at Home - from AOL

Very cool Thanks for sharing this!

I find it interesting that the article is focussed on *employees* - but I suppose there must be some admins who do telecommute on a regular paycheck, as opposed to being business owners/independent operators.

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I suppose there must be some admins who do telecommute on a regular paycheck, as opposed to being business owners/independent operators.

I did that until I moved out of state, at which point I became an independent contractor. Same job, different tax structure. Many companies are offering telecommuting to save on overhead.

I've noticed that a lot of work at home articles focus on telecommuting employees. When you're looking for something you can do from home it's a little frustrating to see that since there really aren't too many employers that are willing to do that for current admin employees. I have seen a couple of mentions of virtual assistants so it's obvious that this field of work is starting to become more well known:-)
Jen

What was interesting to me about the jobs listed in this article is that 90% of them I've seen VA's on this board have as their "niche" or specialty!

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I noticed that too and I found it quite interesting!

i just want to make some extra money...hoping all this information will lead me to something

Great article, thank you for posting!

Sharon

Thanks for sharing this! I can't wait to see where the VA industry will be in 5 years.

Hello - thanks for the article. I would like to start my own VA business but in the area i live in I am afraid it wouldn't go over well, that being said I am going to give it a try! I do think of "employed VA's" as still VA's. Does that make sense?

Thanks for posting the article. Very informative.

I think we will be in more demand in the times coming. Businesses can not always afford to have employees. We will be the answer

Thank you for the information.... I also live in area that doesn't really know what VA's really are... but with the price of gas and everything being at least 20 miles one way to the next local area that would possibly have some kind of job for barely 9.00 hr just isn't worth it, so I am hoping that I can find something that I can do at home and make money so that I wouldn't have to pay for daycare on top of the high gas prices.... just hoping that I find something that I can really make money doing......

I thought it would be sensible to set up my VA business whilst working full time. I can then spend time getting a client base.

Not many people seemed to have heard of Virtual Assistants here in the UK which is quite a good way of opening up a conversation!

I agree with Deboroah It will be very interesting to see how things move on the VA industry 5 years time!

Avocet

Thanks for sharing. There were some good leads in that posting.