Okay before I will start here, just to let you know I am not a great writer. Writing is my weakest skill. However I will challenge myself here and I will tell you my story.
Let Me Introduce Myself
My name is Agnieszka, but I prefer Agi! I'm the quieter part of no9to5! Brown hair, 164cm (very small person), but very fast! My passion is running. I think I am like THE FLASH and run everywhere, every day... but not as fast as FLASH! I could talk and talk about running, but maybe next time I will share more.
What else I can say about myself? I love spending time outdoors. I am a very active girl who likes to challenge herself and learn new things whenever possible.
Since I can remember I travelled from my childhood. My parents took me and my brother every year somewhere to show us a bit of the world. Of course mainly in Poland but after communism, we started to travel abroad.
I always love to discover new parts of the world, I like to meet new people and explore more and more. I like new things, new places and new food.
UK Bound
After my study I decided to leave Poland and I moved to UK without any English (yikes!). I actually learnt some sentences: “Good Morning. My name is Agi. I am looking for a job. Any job”... “Pardon”... “Please could you repeat” ha ha ha.
So when I arrived I got a job at Mars and over there I started to grow up. I developed my job skills. It was a perfect place to work. I learnt a lot there. But……
Living in the UK was pretty sweet. Great job, great salary and Great Boyfriend. Living there I discovered a new world. I have done a lot of new things. I got my motor bike driving licence, I went on my first big backpacking trip, my first half marathon and more and more……. I like it, I liked my life in England.
Living in the UK was awesome, but…..I felt not 100% sure if this is what I want.
I started feeling like I don’t want to spend my whole live in the office from 9-5 in one big company. That's not the kind of person I wanted to be. I want to be different and I want something…yes but what do I want?
I know…..I want a new job, I want a new life, and I want to experience something new.
How About Thailand?
My Great Boyfriend, said to me why don’t we move to Thailand and start to live there.
Hmmm new country, new culture, new continent why not?
Wait, but it's hot there every day, what I am going to do with my running? Where will I run there? Where will I find job there? What kind of job? AAAAAAAAAAAA……….and more and more questions in my head.
One life, so let’s do it. And there my freelance trip is starting……
Freelance trip……Freelance WHAT? WHERE? HOW?
Hello Freelance, wait what is freelance? Where to start? How to start?
My Great Boyfriend had a few friends who were already living in Thailand and some of them were already freelancers.
The first thing I did like any normal human - I checked on internet what is freelance. I also read a book by Tim Ferris - The 4 Hour Workweek, I also followed a few blogs and got more knowledge.
Let's Freelance
First thing I did, I created my profile on Odesk (now Upwork). I reviewed other people's profiles, what did they say about themselves and of course check out the profile style.
All of them looked the same. People copy and paste their CV’s. I tried to make mine different, I wanted to be more COOL and stand out from the other 100,000,000 people. I have also completed on Odesk (Upwork) recommended tests like: English test, Management skills test etc.
And then I started hunting for some jobs. But what job, what do I want to do? What can I do? What skills do I have? What job background do I have? Can I freelance?
Of course I can freelance, let’s keep myself motivated and be positive.
So I reviewed my skills, my work history and myself. I decided I can apply for Virtual Assistant jobs, I can help people to be more organised, I can help with Social Media, I can create images etc. All of these things came to my head.
And nowadays after 1 year freelance I became super Virtual Assistant, I became designer and guru of Social Media! After 1 year I have learnt lots about Photoshop, social media and many other things.
I have created my own website http://virtualagi.com/
And after all this experience with freelance I could still travel around Asia.
I and my Great Boyfriend decided to share this story and this is why we decided to create no9to5 to help people to start with Freelance.
If you have any question please contact us: http://no9to5.co/contact/