A day in the life of a remote bookkeeper…

Being a remote bookkeeper allows me to have the work life balance that I had been craving. When I was stuck working as an onsite employee, in a position that I hated many years ago after I had my daughter, I knew I wanted better work life balance so I could be with my daughter more in these precious early years.

My job definitely involves good time management skills as my days are often quite broken up in various chunks of time, while I work on many different clients files each day.

Here is an example of my day the other week. While it is not always like this (computer issues) the fact that I was able to step away, have a break and come back refreshed is not something I would have been able to do if I was working in a 9-5 onsite position, so for that I am thankful for.

• 6 30am: Wake up and have a cuppa, then do a quick morning yoga session on you tube

• 6.45am: Log on, check/respond to emails, check my asana tasks for the day and allocate clients bills/receipts in hubdoc

• 7.30am: Process payrolls for 2 clients

• 8.15am: Make daughters breakfast and lunch and nag her to get ready for school

• 8.40am: Walk daughter to school with the dog, meet a school mum and go for a walk and chat.

• 9.30am: Work on clients files preparing BAS's for 2 clients. Having computer issues that is wearing patience thin, decide to go out for lunch

• 12.35pm: Drive to ocean grove (15mins away) order Chinese take away, walk along main shopping strip, drive to the beach and have lunch on beach before driving home.

• 1.50pm: More work on clients files, allocating transactions, reconciling bank accounts - computer behaving now.

• 3.20pm: Walk to pick daughter up from school, take basketball so we can walk home past the mini court and shoot some hoops.

• 4.05pm: Bit more work on clients files, respond to a few emails

• 5.15pm: Partner gets home from work, time to clock off for the day!

My lunch view - Ocean Grove beach.