The Thorns of the Silk
Sunday, August 21st, 2011Online jobs are quite popular nowadays because it gives a person flexibility and control with his or her time and this is what happened to my sister when she found an online job. Using a free ventrilo server, my sister communicates with her clients for 8 hours since this is part of her job as a virtual secretary. The software that they are using is available for download in the cloud and enables users to freely contact their clients over the web and even send SMS. Communicate with the clients of her boss, set appointment meetings over the net, monitor any ongoing meetings and take meeting minutes are among her job as a virtual secretary. After every meeting, my sister creates meeting summaries even though it is not part of her job description. In case the meeting is cancelled or she needs to follow up the client she just use the free software. One of the things I am wondering about her job is that if there are instances that a client gets upset over a cancelled meeting and she told me that there are quite a few instances. One of the tiring conversations she had was when her client vented about him being pissed with his wife. My sister remained very patient despite the fact that she is now treated like a trash can of all the rants from her client. She told me that she loves her job and that she has no plans of quitting it even with what happened besides the pay is staggering. She was also given the weekend off which most employers would never do, so she said she would endure any kind of venting since she was just online.