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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here, YouTube Influencer makes her drool. She talked about wanting to be that through the end of h.s.
To the suggestions of hospitality, business major and focus on entrepreneurship I will share those suggestions with her. Along with the advice to get some catering/internship/sports events experience.   [/quote]

New poster. You're getting some good posts here with real advice re: majors, but some posters seem not to understand that she's already a college freshman, not a high school freshman. Does her current college have the kind of majors people are recommending here? Does it have any focus on hospitality or a solid business program for undergrads? Now is the time for her to check that out so she knows whether her current college is going to be able to provide the major(s) she would need to do this realistically. She might need to change colleges.

And checking out the realities of majors and internships etc. might make her either decide yes, she really does want to do this, or no, she's not truly into the business/finance/hospitality courses she would need to do this as a paying job.

It's especially important for her to find out how good her college is at helping undergrads get into summer jobs and internships that give them a real taste of the careers they think they want. She won't get a summer internship being an event planner herself, but she might get one helping in a hospitality business. If she's not willing to do the grunt work in the offices of a hotel chain or being a "gofer" while watching what hospitality professionals do -- then that will help her realize whether she wants to continue in hospitality/business or whether she was more interested in "influencing" than in the work of event planning. It is OK if she realizes it's not what she wants after all! She won't know until she seriously investigates it.

Kudos to the posters who are treating this as a potential real job and not just acting like she's being silly. It's doable but would mean real business training. It's about far more than deciding on lovely décor and food -- there's a lot of budgeting, handling other people's money, delivering on time, managing vendors and contracts, managing employees, being able to handle cancellations and last-second disasters, etc. [/quote]

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