My Story

I started in the clerical field when I was 14 years old at our local high school office. It was at a time when Wordperfect and Microsoft Word were just coming out and computers didn’t have hard drives.

In the Spring of 1993, I moved to Surrey where I became a Temp for Drake International and Kelly Employment Services where I loved the work environments that I got to experience. I did reception, accounts payable, word processing and data entry in establishments such as the stock exchange, automotive supply warehouse, appliance distributor, and an elevator manufacturing plant just to name a few. I loved every location I got the opportunity to work in and tried to learn as much as I could during that time.

In 1996, I had my oldest son and decided I was going to be a stay-at-home mom. During that time, I did volunteer work as a welfare advocate’s assistant and helped run an Advocacy Support Group for Single Moms.

In 2000, I opened Sonja’s Office Services in Surrey, B.C. as I was missing being home with my son more, so I started providing secretarial support to small businesses in and around the Surrey area. I helped with coordinating travel arrangements, responding to emails, invoicing, inputting books into either Excel or QuickBooks and helping type up Business Offers. At one point, I even typed student reports so that all they had to do was to focus on content and not the formatting of the documents.

In 2003, I moved to Vernon where I started things again and eventually bought a house in 2007 where my family and I lived for 10 years. During my time in Falkland, I went back to school and got my medical transcription certificate and provided services for 12 years remotely as I did not realize that I could offer my secretarial services virtually.

In 2016, I opened up a Process Serving company franchise in the Kelowna and Vernon areas that I ran for 4 years. When I moved to Kamloops I opened up a location here, I struggled to grow that area and it was then that I decided it was time for a change.

In April of 2020, I decided that it was time to go back to doing the one thing that had always given me some joy, providing clerical support to businesses and realized that it was always something I had previously been offering in the past but just didn’t realize it after I moved from the lower mainland. I was so used to my few clients coming to my office that I didn’t realize that everything could be done over email, fax, video conference, etc. as generally, my clients didn’t know how to communicate in these ways.

I love helping Trades succeed. I have always prided myself in my belief that “Your Success is My Reward” and that when you succeed I succeed. It gives me great joy helping businesses achieve their goals and dreams.

We Are Driven By Values

My team and I believe in giving 110% to your business and take pride in the work that we provide in order to help you become more successful.