I've worked corporate jobs for over 15 years out of which majority was in the services industry in UAE, USA, and Pakistan. I have done customer service jobs, a commercial executive role, worked in real estate, worked in merchant acquisition at a bank, and worked for BPO companies and call centers, and also worked as a reservation agent in San Francisco for about 6 months at Hornblower Cruises & Events (Alcatraz Tours). And then I transitioned into full-time freelancing in 2021.
I did not have a clear idea of what field I wanted to go into, and my contracts were for tasks like: customer service, operations coordinator, data entry, lead generation, transcription, sales, executive assistance, and more nuanced data work.
For the past 2 years though I have been solely contracted by a long-term client in data analysis work.