Real talk: the first year or two of running a Virtual Assistant business is a lot of figuring things out on the fly. What to charge. How to onboard a client without wanting to hide under your desk. Whether to specialize or stay general. How to say ‘I’m sorry, I can’t work for $10/hour’ without feeling like you’re being difficult.
These are the questions nobody warns you about when you Google ‘how to become a Virtual Assistant.’ And yet they’re the ones that make or break whether this path actually works for you.
That’s exactly why I built the Virtual Assistant Career training program. New VAs shouldn’t have to piece together answers from 47 different blog posts written by people who haven’t actually done the work.
Here’s something nobody posts on Instagram: around 10 a.m., sometimes I wonder if I know what I’m doing.
A client needs something outside my comfort zone. A proposal goes unanswered for a week. I compare my rates to someone online and start second-guessing myself. This isn’t failure. It’s just Tuesday in a service-based business.
The difference between VAs who make it and VAs who quietly give up? Community. Mentorship. Having somewhere to turn when you hit a wall instead of googling in circles at 10:15 a.m., alone.
