Adventure Capitalist

I recently embarked on a trial with a Virtual Assistant. I still have about 8 hours of purchased time left unused.

I’m a busy man, I don’t get enough sleep and my todo list is constantly full. But to be honest, a Virtual Assistant is simply not for me. The reason is quite clear: the sort of things I would like to outsource are too qualified for a VA - I don’t really trust a relatively untrained VA to do my bookkeeping for me. I don’t trust someone making $6 an hour to do business and market research for me. I certainly don’t trust someone making $6 an hour with my credit card details to make purchases for me.

But most of all, the amount of detailed management required to effectively use a VA to me seems to take almost as much time as doing it myself.

There are a lot of things an assistant could do for me - but they all require relatively specialised skills, something which a single VA probably isn’t capable of doing, at least not at the sort of prices that make sense for me. Rather it seems I’d need 2 or 3 different specialised assistants, but I don’t really have the funds for it, nor the patience to manage a bunch of people doing qualified, but relatively mundane tasks.

Maybe VA’s work for some, but for me, I don’t quite see the point.