Comments on: Are You Crossing the Line? http://vadirectory.net/blog/2007/07/02/are-you-crossing-the-line/ About the Virtual Assistant industry for VAs and for clients Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:38:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Kathie Thomas http://vadirectory.net/blog/2007/07/02/are-you-crossing-the-line/comment-page-1/#comment-53738 Kathie Thomas Mon, 02 Jul 2007 12:10:27 +0000 http://vadirectory.net/blog/?p=200#comment-53738 So sorry to hear of your friend's experience. When I was starting it was before email and I think that provides an even greater temptation because it's so readily available. It's a hard lesson to learn but hopefully it will make your friend even more determined to get her business up and running quickly so she doesn't have to be in another job for too much longer. I agree about the evenings - here I am at my computer late at night, busy blogging! So sorry to hear of your friend’s experience. When I was starting it was before email and I think that provides an even greater temptation because it’s so readily available.

It’s a hard lesson to learn but hopefully it will make your friend even more determined to get her business up and running quickly so she doesn’t have to be in another job for too much longer.

I agree about the evenings – here I am at my computer late at night, busy blogging!

]]> By: Ros Null http://vadirectory.net/blog/2007/07/02/are-you-crossing-the-line/comment-page-1/#comment-53734 Ros Null Mon, 02 Jul 2007 11:51:59 +0000 http://vadirectory.net/blog/?p=200#comment-53734 Kathie, I have a friend who was in the start-up phase with her business, things at her full time job were slow and she felt that redundancy was imminent because of this. Her employer intercepted an email from my friend to her sister asking her opinion on the site she was building and she was fired on the spot. She has since tried and failed to get unemployment benefits and now truly regrets doing anything related to her VA business during business hours. Unfortunately it is too late. She does not have the capital to go it alone just yet, and so is forced to take a new full time position for a while. Starting your VA business while still working full-time can certainly be done. You just need to work all the after-hours hours that you have. (It's really good practice for soloprenurship, I have been in business for a year and still find myself working over weekends and evenings.) Kathie,

I have a friend who was in the start-up phase with her business, things at her full time job were slow and she felt that redundancy was imminent because of this. Her employer intercepted an email from my friend to her sister asking her opinion on the site she was building and she was fired on the spot.

She has since tried and failed to get unemployment benefits and now truly regrets doing anything related to her VA business during business hours. Unfortunately it is too late. She does not have the capital to go it alone just yet, and so is forced to take a new full time position for a while.

Starting your VA business while still working full-time can certainly be done. You just need to work all the after-hours hours that you have. (It’s really good practice for soloprenurship, I have been in business for a year and still find myself working over weekends and evenings.)

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