How to Be a Virtual Assistant with a Full Time Job

How to Be a Virtual Assistant with a Full Time Job

When most people decide to become virtual assistants, they will usually quit their job to focus on it full time. It can be rough at first, but ultimately this approach allows you to put your full attention on the business, which allows it to grow faster. However, there are still a lot of people out there who manage to successfully hold down a full time job along with their growing virtual assistant business. If that's the route you want to take, there are some ways to make your life a little easier.

Schedule Your Calls Around Your Job

The beauty of being a virtual assistant is that it doesn't have to be a 9-5 job. In fact, more often than not you'll find yourself working in the evening until 8 or 9 pm due to clients in different time zones. When you set up your call schedule, take a planner and go ahead and blank out all the hours you'll be spending at your regular job where you can't take calls. If you have a 9-5, just make yourself unavailable for the whole chunk of time.

Time you could be Reached

Then, try to allow for as many hours as possible outside that time frame. You might want to make yourself available for 2 hours in the morning and then another 4 after work, or whatever schedule works for you. This lets your clients know that you can't be reached at certain hours.

Mention Your Hours Instead of Your Times

That heading is a little confusing, so let me clear it up: Basically, you don't want to tell clients that you're available from 6-11 every night. Instead, say that you are available for 5 hours a day, at whatever times those hours may fall. That gives you a little leeway with your schedule. If you wake up early you can get an hour of work done before you head to your job, letting you stop working an hour earlier than normal at night. If you specify that you're available until 11pm every night, you then HAVE to be available, even if you managed to squeeze in that extra hour in the morning. This is important for billing purposes.

Keep Your Stress Levels Down

Finally, it's important to work with what you know for the simple fact that it can be very easy to get stressed when you're running a business on top of a full time job. These next few months are going to be incredibly difficult, and what you may find happening is that one of your jobs starts to slip as you pay more attention to the other one.

This can really limit your productivity because even if you're doing well at your virtual assistant business, you might be worried about duties at your regular job, and vice versa. That worry really starts to eat at you after a time, so you have to find a way to keep all your priorities in line and keep stress levels at a minimum. 

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