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I became an advisor at my chapter 1 or 1 1/2 years after graduation. This isn't really allowed, but my chapter was awful about alumnae relations (and still isn't that great, but we're working on it), so we didn't have a lot of alumnae support. For quite awhile, we only had 2 advisors (Chapter and Recruitment/Member Development) and maybe 2 or 3 alums that would show up occasionally to help. We now have 5 advisors—the original 2, plus me, another sister from my year, and one from the year below me. Since we now have 3 young advisors, we're not letting any other recent grads from our own chapter become advisors. The only exception to that would be if someone wanted to become finance advisor, since we're still without one and it is desperately needed. It was difficult at first to advise my own chapter since I still went to school with a majority of the sisters, but now that I've been out for 3 years, I don't know any of the girls personally, which makes things easier.
I'm Scholarship/Alumnae Relations advisor, and I only have to go to monthly EC meetings and alumnae events, which I would go to anyway, so it doesn't take up too much time. I also go to recruitment when I can and certain rituals, like Initiation. I used to go to more stuff, but I started grad school on top of working full-time, so that's all I have time for. That's probably the bare minimum that you can get away with, but if you're the only advisor, you'll probably have to go to more stuff, plus put up with the barrage of phone calls that happens if something goes wrong, which can take up a lot of time.
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