Data Entry from Home , Typing Jobs & Stuffing Envelopes

I am a data entry operator who works from home. My name is Leonard Skinthorpe Jr and I live and work in Australia. The content you are reading right now is the actual data I enter. The purpose of this website is to showcase my employment story for the world to see. It is not my intention to sell anything to anyone or to promise to show them how to start their own data entry business online. My sole objective is to tell my tale and practice my typing in the process. If someone reads my testimony and feels inspired to work at home in some capacity, that’s great. If they don’t, that’s fine too.

I have every right to call myself a home-based data entry clerk. First of all, I work from an office inside my house, and secondly I type content for this website and others every day of the week. Every word I type is data I am entering. Just because the data I enter is made up on the spot as I type, doesn’t make it any less valid than the information someone based in an office is entering into a spreadsheet or database for an employer. I guess it all comes down to semantics, how you define ‘data entry’ and how determined you are to be successful in your chosen career. My main project at the moment is writing articles for the blog on this website.

I had to learn to type as a prerequisite for the last job I was employed in. There was a data entry component to the duties I performed in that position and although I found it quite boring, (almost soul destroying), I could see the potential for self-employment. It didn’t take me long to realise that typing was a skill I could utilise to make money for myself. Having realised the opportunity existed; I had to find a way of making my daydream a reality. The most important thing to me at the time was to cease the employment I was involved in and find some way to earn a living, working from home. Exploiting my data entry talents seemed to be my best bet.

Did I tell you how much I love the internet? I am online all day every day. It is such an empowering feeling to know I can sit at home in Australia and communicate with, and do business with anyone from anywhere around the world. There are data entry clerks working from home in every country on Earth and it is truly inspiring to know that I’m up there with the best of them. I ended up getting laid off from my last job so I had to decide whether to get another job working for an employer, or to take the plunge and work for myself from home. If it wasn’t for my data entry and typing skills I probably would’ve given up and reverted to being a forklift driver!

I think a lot of people see internet-based jobs that allow you to work from home, as being less valid than traditional administration or labour-intensive jobs. Part of me agrees with them and another part opposes their view. My choice to start my own data entry business was a fairly selfish one. No one will benefit from my efforts but me (and my family). I can see how someone who provides an essential service to the community could be deemed more valuable to society than me. I also know that my general community will benefit financially from me spending my income locally. That is income derived from doing data entry from home, collected from all over the world and spent in Australia. There are two sides to every coin.

Being a data entry operator wasn’t my first choice, believe it or not. I researched other computer jobs which utilised the use of the internet, like completing online surveys or answering emails as a virtual office assistant. Finding legitimate employment opportunities on the web ended up being a lot more difficult than I thought it would be. I even considered stuffing envelopes for a living and would’ve done it too if I could’ve found a genuine provider for the service. In the end I decided to go with my strengths and through necessity had to embrace self-employment as the only way to make an honest living. Now I work from home entering data for my pay, and I couldn’t be happier!

Having decided to become a home-based data entry clerk, I had to figure out what data I was going to enter and where I was going to enter it. I started typing content for this website about four years ago and over that time the theme of the site changed and evolved into what you see today. If someone had have told me ten years ago that ten years from now I’d be performing data entry as a job, I would’ve laughed in their face. I’m a totally different person now. I feel confident the career path I’ve chosen is the one that fits me best and I look forward to a long and secure period of self-employment and wealth building. The future is looking bright for virtual office assistants like myself.

As you can see, I have no trouble filling a page with words. That is the most important skill required to make it in the field of freelance data entry. Having a good imagination helps too. My story is true. It is not remarkable or amazing but it’s honest and written from the heart. As each thought pops into my mind I quickly convert it into data and enter it, via my computer keyboard, into a document that will serve as a record of my past. I have spent a lot of my life worrying about my employment situation and I have many regrets regarding my poor career choices, but with my data entry job, I see a legacy I can truly be proud of. Was that over the top? Please visit my blog to read my daily posts on this subject.