I call myself a data entry operator but I guess you could call me a virtual assistant if you wanted to. The word virtual just refers to the fact that I work online from home, and although I don’t assist anyone as such, I do assist myself by earning money so I can pay the rent and buy food. Working in a job based on the internet can be difficult insofar as it sometimes seems fake or surreal. Without leaving my house I enter data from my home office and, miraculously, my pay ends up in my bank account. I think my business is a really magical career opportunity.
I love working from home as a data entry operator. I imagine that I am being miniaturised and transmitted on to the internet. Swirling in a vortex, I type my blog posts and articles, stopping only to visit the NRL website to see who won on the weekend. I float through cables upon waves of light and spin on my hard drive, feeling a sense of weightlessness. Is that just me? Is that weird? Maybe they were right when they said a data entry clerk is only ever as healthy as the data he or she has entered. I don’t know what to think anymore!