Busy Month

This has been a relatively busy month for me. I had lots of transcription work assignments in addition to my usual forum posting and occasional 'virtual assistant' tasks. My sister gifted me with a noise-cancelling headphone which I use when transcribing audio files and it has been a big help to me. However, I can only transcribe one hour of audio per day as my head starts to pound after that, not to mention my fingers getting tired. Add to that my responsibility to prepare food for my family and take care of my kids.

I'm not complaining. I'm happy to do whatever work God has blessed me with but I did turn down one assignment which required for me to work during weekend. I would have gotten a good pay for it but spending time with my family was more important. I do not regret my decision at all.

I believe I'm improving in my transcription work. I now type faster and more accurately. Here's hoping I'll get more good projects coming my way.

Virtual Assistant

I learned new things as a virtual assistant. This is one type of work that could really exhaust your skills and talents. You are expected to do lots of things -- article writing, copywriting, data entry, transcribe audio files, forum posting and more.

I had a crash course in how to write titles and description tags for web pages for SEO. I did a pretty good work with what was assigned to me, if I may say so myself. Generally, it was not a hard task but keeping the title or description to a desired number of characters could be challenging more so if you are expected to include certain keywords.

One thing I'd like to learn is how to effectively do postings at Craigslist. Most of the virtual assistant work I've come across with seem to require this skill. I really don't know if there's any special technique or whatever that I need to learn for this type of thing. I prefer doing "real" work but I guess to some this is real enough.