Reply to My college freshman told me she would like to be an event planner or stylist (ala grownish?)

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "My college freshman told me she would like to be an event planner or stylist (ala grownish?)"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It sounds like a good job for someone in their 20's, who doesn't mind constantly working evenings and weekends.

If your daughter wants to have children eventually, then it may make it difficult to stay in this career.

I am not in this industry (am a lawyer myself), but I don't think it would be wise to get a particular "major" in this area -- seems like a dead end.  I suspect that you could do a lot of on-the-job training for this line of work, and could have a more broad major (like Business) that is not as limiting as Hospitality.[/quote]

Read the previous posts.  You have no idea the kind of doors a degree in hospitality opens up for people. I have two friends who went to Cornell for this - one is an exec at Marriott, the other plans launch events/conferences in Silicon Valley.  Both are very wealthy and very well-regarded in their industries.  Most importantly, they are in solid careers with great job security.

Don't treat this as a joke, OP.  Take it seriously, and get her more information on potential degree programs she can trasnfer into (a PP above listed some of the well regarded ones), as well as the types of internships and long-term careers that she might end up in.[/quote]

Too late for ops kid to go to Cornell or comparable.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics