For many VAs its can be a battle to get paid, often on completion of a
task, we then struggle to get our payments. We do the work, giving the client
an excellent service then the client decides they don’t want to pay or had no
intention of paying in the first place and they simply want the job done for
free.
Some VAs are so busy that they fight to make their deadlines. This is
one of my problems, I juggle my time between clients to make sure everyone’s
work gets done and try my hardest to meet the deadlines which are not always
possible. This is when time management skills come in handy, I have to stop,
relook at what I have, look to see which piece of work I can get done quickly
and then redo my to-do-list and start again.
Finding good subcontractors is a battle. Everyone wants to subcontract
but not everyone is good and that is where the problem lies. We take on a
subcontractor as they are so enthusiastic to assist and then when the job is
returned and here is just one example proofreading has not been done. This
makes our jobs more difficult as we are using subcontractors as we need the
assistance, as maybe we are too busy, then we must stop what we are doing and
proofread the work. Anyone no matter who you work for, your work must be
proofread, nobody is too good that they should not proof their work, you either
proof as you go or do a proof when you are finished but it is part of your job
to proof any work that has been typed. Things like this slow down our
production.
These are just 3 tasks that I have chosen to show that our job is about
fighting to get things done; can you associate with any of them?
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