I first heard about Virtual Administration way back in the early 2000's when I worked as a Personal assistant in Scotland's NHS.. I loved that job and thought the only way it could be more amazing was if I could do it from home.. I was only in my early twenties at that point though, and the internet was a very different place in 2005, Twitter and Facebook were still two years from being launched! I found a surprising amount of information on Google about what a VA does but no matter how hard I searched online, I couldn't find a way into the profession that didn't involve living in a city to access high speed connections which my town didn't yet have..
Beyond a shopping trip or long weekend, I'm not really a city living kind of girl, so I decided to put the idea to the back of my mind. Instead I concentrated on building my career in the NHS, always keeping one eye on the internal vacancies advertised page for a PA position. Those are rarer than hens teeth and I loved working in the NHS so instead I focused on getting experience across my health-board. I bought a house, got married, made it a home, traveled and had our kids. I didn't realise it for another 10 years, but the seed for KTVAS was already sown. I can't remember exactly when it happened or how, but every so often I would do a little bit of admin work for friends who ran their own businesses, then I was doing it for their friends, and by 2019 I realised I now had a bit of a hobby business on my hands! I wasn't sure it was entirely viable yet, there was still the misconception that people couldn't be trusted to work from home.. Now though there was so much information online about how to become a VA, what a good business model looked like and the best part I now had high speed broadband! Gradually I started taking the soft skills I had accumulated and began formalising them.. Over the course of my second maternity leave in 2019 I looked into marketing and branding strategy's, I took courses on Social Media Management, Business Management, Microsoft Office, and more! Then in early 2020, just a few months after I had returned to work, and just as I was trying to decide if now was the time to launch a business, Covid-19 arrived on the scene. It didn't feel right to start a business at the beginning of the pandemic, it also felt a bit like jumping ship to leave when things were getting so tough. I continued on for another year building my skills and learning more of what I thought I might need to know until in the spring of 2021 for various reasons, it felt like the time had come and that there wasn't going to be a better time than now! So here I am, finally ready and hoping this hobby turned 'for real' is ready too!
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