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“How’d you get a remote job?!” OR “Wow! You’re so lucky!” OR “I could never work from home full time” are the three most common responses when people learn that I am working remotely full time.
I worked remotely as a freelancer for the first 8 years of my career. In 2017, I was ready to try working in an office full-time while freelancing part-time. After 4 years in an office – 1.5 of which was during a pandemic – I was ready to return to working remotely.
So in June of 2021, I was hired on at Nicki K Media. The organization designs, builds, and markets online courses to help individuals in their careers. The company has three brands:
- Filthy Rich Writer: This brand features the Comprehensive Copywriting Academy, which teaches individuals how to do copywriting and then how to work part-time, full-time, freelance, or in an agency with that new skillset. (P.S. wondering what copywriting is? Click here.)
- Fired Up Freelance: This brand is for those with existing skills that want to become freelancers for other businesses.
- Circuit Sales System: If you already have an online product or service, this course is focused on selling that product/service on autopilot vs live launching.
Obviously, I am pretty passionate about working remotely AND freelance – so this was a natural fit for me.
My role at NKM is the Business Operations Manager. Basically, I create and keep projects on track, set up and monitor quarterly goals, oversee HR, and partner with the owner on accounting. I spend my day finding and fixing pain points for our creative employees and contractors. It’s awesome! The creative people are able to dream big, and I assist in making it happen.
I spend my day doing research and implementing ways to make our little team more effective. Things like making Asana work smarter so we can save hours and hours each week instead of retyping in the same list of subtasks every time. Or looking into why we have 3 software systems, when (with a bit of elbow grease on my part) we could just have (and pay for) one system.
I found my role through word of mouth but was interviewed and vetted by a recruiter who specializes in placing people in remote jobs. Integrate Up has new postings regularly for full-time, remote positions.
If you stick around, you’ll see me talk quite a lot about all three of our courses. I was able to take them all and really wish I had had these courses when I was starting out. Also – the module on pricing in Freelance Success Framework is something I still needed to see, even after 10 years of experience.
The last question I normally get asked is “Do you love it?”. Answer – YES. I do love it. I love the team I get to work with each day, the autonomy, and the impact we have on our students. Plus my dog coworkers are pretty cute 😉
