Roseve Lamayon – Administrative Assistant

Hi. I am Roseve Lamayon, or Shao for short. I am a wife and a mother of two boys (one is a toddler, and another is on the way). I graduated with a Bachelor of Secondary Education major in English at San Isidro College in 2013, then took my degree in Master of Arts in Education major in Educational Administration at Capitol University in 2019. Since graduation from college, I began teaching high school students English and research subjects. I taught in a rural school for such a long time, but realised that because I had to flip my standards for the students (since I taught in a far-flung area where education was not really valued by everyone), I felt I had stagnated and that I was not the competitive and competent “me” anymore.

So by 2019, after finishing my master’s degree, I applied to be a part-time teacher at a college in the city. I taught education students professional education subjects and English major students to English majors. Everything was well and good, but then pandemic came, and I was unemployed.

During the pandemic, I applied as an English as a Secondary Teacher (ESL) for a lot of ESL companies and landed two online teaching jobs. First was in 51Talk, where I got to teach Chinese students for 6 months, then Bizmates, where I taught Japanese professionals business English. That same year, 2020, I started my first virtual assistant job as a content writer for Advascripta Media. Soon enough, I landed a transcriptionist job for Verbit-AI.

Months later, when the COVID was somewhat neutralised, we were called back to the office and classes resumed. I paused my ESL teaching, but I continued working for Verbit.AI as a transcriptionist. So every mornings, I got to teach college students, and in the evenings and midnights, I got to do my transcription job. All is well indeed because I can now pay my bills and support my family (I was the breadwinner) until verbit. AI had stopped releasing jobs anymore because they have perfected their AI transcription system and won’t need much human help anymore, so I was laid off together with my colleagues from South Africa and Latin America. It hurt my finances, really.

Fast forward to now, and I am still working as a part-time college instructor in one of the colleges in Valencia City. The pay is actually good, but the commute is very long and tricky (one-and-a-half hour commute). I would arrive home to my sleeping child (since it would be past his bedtime when I arrive), and I would have to wake up early while my child is still asleep. I mean, I always felt this mum guilt for not being there for my child as he grew. It’s not that I want to stop work and become a stay-at-home mum because who would pay the bills if that happened? Although my husband has work, he cannot cope with the finances of our growing family alone, so I have to assist.

Now, just like in 2020 when the pandemic first struck, I am back to where I once was—applying for jobs nonstop—all for the love of my children. I wanted to have more time with them and more financial freedom. I believe becoming a virtual assistant once again will help me.

For a copy of Roseve’s resume please click here.