Christina Jane became a virtual assistant as an undergraduate after working part time for Amazon. She continued after moving to Ghana for grad school.

The moment I got back to my desk, I started looking for any virtual-assistant work I could do. Within 24 hours, I landed my first client on Upwork by submitting a proposal for a project.

I recently downloaded a virtual assistant that promised to ease the burdens of modern parenthood. The app is called Yohana, and it offered to handle a pile of tasks on my behalf. It suggested ...