Why You Don’t Need a College Degree to be a Virtual Assistant
Did you know that being a Virtual Assistant is one of the easiest ways to transition into working from home?
No experience is needed. And no degree needed.
This is crazy considering what we all heard when considering college in high school, that in order to make a decent salary, you have to go to college.
But on average, a virtual assistant can start out anywhere between $20-$25 per hour.
That’s $3,200-$4,000 your first month with full-time hours.
You can earn more money working as a freelancer than working in many traditional jobs.
And you can save on commutes and childcare if you wanted to!
Plus, you can increase your rates as YOU see fit. You can always make sure you’re being paid your worth. And then add tax. No more waiting for that yearly pay raise from your 9-5.
Still, some don’t really believe you can do it without a degree. And I get it.
We’ve all been so conditioned to believe we have to go into forever debt to earn a degree we may or may not use. It’s hard to change that belief.
Tianna started her virtual assistant career over half a decade ago and had no idea what she was getting herself into.
And then she made $2,500 her first month working PART-TIME and knew she’d tapped into something amazing.
Or maybe you're like me and took out an unspeakable amount in student loans to earn your degree and then one day found yourself staying at home with your littles...
OR maybe you have a job but you aren't making near what you thought your degree would earn you. AND you aren't even doing something you enjoy...
What I’m trying to say is... If we can justify an expensive college degree because it's what the next step is supposed to be...
Then maybe we can justify investing in ourselves to learn how to earn an income we have control over.
A college degree opens doors FOR SURE, but you still have to earn your way through those doors even after all of the work the degree took to earn. Some people spend years doing that and then realize how unhappy their career makes them.
But let’s get to the practical reasons you DON’T need a Virtual Assistant degree.
The Virtual Assistant role is very similar to mothering.
We have said for a while now that we believe mothers make incredible assistants.
There are many reasons for this but the gist is, moms do a LOT and they do it all at once, and sometimes clients need someone to come in and do that for their business.
They need someone to come in and mother their business.
And most of the things they need you to do are the same things you are doing in your day-to-day.
We do very similar things like:
Coordinate schedules
Meal plan
Pay bills
Set reminders
Help create to-do lists
Organize
Take notes
Etc…
Instead of a degree, the things we look for in a good assistant are 10 traits. Listen to our podcast on this to learn more on this!
Here are the 10 traits:
Motivation
Resourceful
Trustworthy/Reliable
Proactive
Organized
Adaptability
Good Communicator
Multi-Tasker
Autonomous
Committed
Need help deciphering if you have these traits? Text us at 812-203-4244 and we’ll help walk you through if this career could work for you!