Administrative assistant

An administrative assistant is a person who primarily handles back-office work such as answering phone calls, scheduling meetings, and assisting customers or visitors. An administrative assistant also assists in the typing, copying, printing, and scanning of company documents. Remote admin assistants who don’t work in offices still take charge of the office duties but exclude all the paperwork. Instead, they access and manage all of the company's files from a cloud storage system.

If you are a born organizer with strong verbal communication skills, then this job is perfect for you. Having a background in business is not essential for this type of job since you will be working for an organization across any industry.

Even though admin assistants are not involved in policy making or other highly technical work, they are the key people who can bring people together in meetings and make these meetings go smoothly as planned. Expect to earn about $40,000 per year when working at this job.