With e-mail, phone, and fax, your mentor can live across the country and still be effective. You will find valuable information and advice in magazines, on e-mail lists, and from training courses. As you collect ideas, you need to design a system and place to retain all this information with easy access for future use. If you just want to work 40 hours a week and collect a paycheck, meeting planning is not the career for you. Meeting planners work long hours, late nights, and weekends and are usually required to travel extensively.
Most meeting planners are extremely passionate about their profession and love their work.
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