About Ted Espiritu

I met Ted while trying to find a virtual assistant to do my Four Hour Body workouts for me. Ted lives in the Philippines and is a virtual assistant at ODesk.

If you want to hire Ted find him on Odesk

A Brief Introduction: 

Hi Everybody,

My name is Ted and I am one of the many faceless virtual assistants as you travel the path of design in hopes of becoming one of the new rich. I have been a virtual assistant for over four years now and I would have to say that I am happy about it.

If you are thinking that this is a common job here in the sunny shores of the Philippines, let me tell you that it is not. Nobody even understands what I do.

My own mother can’t even tell her friends what I do. All she can do is shake her head and tell them I’m unemployed.

Before I started working as a Virtual assistant I have worked for six years in the Call Center Industry. You know. We are the people you scream at because your phone is not working or the internet connection slow.

We smile, say the right words, press mute and curse at you in languages that you would not understand.

It was the same thing over and over again, until my wife started taking in jobs online. She got to stay home and earn a living, why not me. I started with a few small jobs and now I have several clients and a couple of assistants to help me out.

I was introduced to the Four Hour Work Week through a client and I was blown away. I still work for a living and I am still in search for that elusive Muse, but I am getting there.

Unfortunately, I have been the only one who thinks that the concepts found in the pages of Tim’s book can even be possible.

I now work less hours but I get paid more than the average stiff here. I have also applied the teaching to allow me to work anywhere. Imagine sitting by the beach in Boracay sipping margaritas as I do research for a client in Australia or the US.

My virtual assistant journey has brought me here today, as I saw Stephen’s job post in Odesk. I have always been active but never really muscular. I have actually planned to run a marathon this year but my knee does not seem to want to cooperate.

My Physical therapist friend suggested that I needed to build more muscle mass which made his job post a perfect fit for my needs.

My wife has also been asking me rather forcibly to go to the gym. I always find an excuse not to. Now that I talked to Stephen, all the excuses have gone away. You can just imagine the smile on my wife’s face.

I stand 5’4” but I am not short, I’m just not tall. I weigh a sexy 138 pounds. I don’t know how much of that is fat but I would guess it would be between 20 to 30%. At the end of this, I hope to cut that in half while gaining at least 10 pounds of muscle.