consultants for your headquarters....

[KSUViolet06]

lI'm applying to be an LC next fall once I graduate. I have a real love and enthusiasm for Sigma and I consider myself to be a very knowledgeable sister (at least for someone who has only been active for a little over a year). I also love traveling and seeing new places. also, since I'm going to be graduating and becoming an alumna, I really want to stay involved.

There's an extensive interview process involved, but I think I'm up to the challenge. I'll update more obviously as it gets closer to that time.

[hoosier]

Very interesting thread, and I'm amazed that so many posters have been traveling employees in the past - it's surely an amazing year or two.

Once, a Phi Sigma Kappa traveling secretary got ambitious, started organizing chapters he was visiting, and got elected Natl. Pres at the next convention. I don't know for sure, but I think the veteran national officers all told him to go to hell, that they would never work with him, and he resigned after about six months.

The Tekes have a special club of past travelers, office staffers, and editors which meets at every Convention for a fun-filled lunch (and initiation of the newbys), and members get to wear a very neat sash.

The Fijis recently hired a chapter officer and IFC pres from Santa Barbara, whose chapter was in the midst of a huge hazing case and lawsuit, and often the best chapter visitors come from small schools and struggling chapters - they aren't as likely to look down on the strugglers like someone from a huge chapter or an huge campus.

The ATOs once had a great guy who visited chapters for them, and was a frequent speaker at interfraternal groups - and he was blind. Told some great stories about having to be the designated driver after some ATO parties.

TKE has "Buckwheat" - a former traveler now making a career as a rush consultant. For $1000 or so, he goes to a chapter, helps them pledge a bunch. He's now old enough to be the father of a college freshman, and still almost passes as a student.

Would like to hear more of your stories.

[33girl]

Originally posted by hoosier
Once, a Phi Sigma Kappa traveling secretary got ambitious, started organizing chapters he was visiting, and got elected Natl. Pres at the next convention. I don't know for sure, but I think the veteran national officers all told him to go to hell, that they would never work with him, and he resigned after about six months.

LOL. How long ago was this?

[ISUKappa]

That's great, Jocelyn! Good luck.

My advice for anyone who is even remotely thinking they would like to serve as a TC/LC/TLC/FC/ELC/whathaveyou is to sit down and really think out this decision. You will most likely be constantly traveling, every week, for nearly 8 months. That's a lot of time spent on planes living out of a suitcase. That's a lot of different chapters and personalities you will be experiencing, and it will be very taxing. You will see things you never thought you would see and hear things (good and bad) you never thought you would hear. You will learn things about the innerworkings of your fraternity, and it will probably not be very glamorous. Some people can handle those things, and that's fabulous.

I was extremely disappointed that after the interviews, I wasn't selected to be a TC. Now that I've been out of college a few years and have a better understanding of myself, I've realized I was not a good fit for the TC position. Yes, I had the leadership experience and communication skills, but I would have absolutely hated constantly living out of a suitcase and that could have affected how well I did my job and my level of fraternity involvement post-traveling.

[Tom Earp]

I lived out of The Proveriable Suit Case for 5 Years.

But while not with My National, I did try to visit some Chapters. What a Grand Time it was! Ment Good, Not So Good, and Really Not Good. But, was just an Alum stopping by!

If only if I had Not been married, I could have done it!

It is an experience of a Life Time to be sure. Do You get burned Out,
Yes.

But, if someone reads Your Resume, they should have the Balls to say WOW! Oh that is a Guy Thing!

Tuff and Fun, But, The knowledge is worth every minute of Your training and what You learned working with People All over!

How do deal with people is one of the Big Door Openers!

[hoosier]

Originally posted by 33girl
LOL. How long ago was this?

'70s

[Tom Earp]

josh80 any word yet?

[Erik P Conard]

the late Wilson Heller called us all "fielders." Like previously said,
they were not all chapter presidents or pledge trainers. And they
did not all come from top chapters. We had no formal interviews,
and I guess we were selected by "gut feeling."
The experience is one of a lifetime; two years is a good hitch,
as in the first you are just beginning to learn and by the end of
the second, you are kinda burned out. I do not know of ANYTHING of a training nature any better.
I met some real sharp fielders, and think Sig Ep had some real
keen guys on the road, but they were somewhat restricted by a
controlling HQ.
Yep, it was fun...and while motels look a lot alike and you do not
always know where you are...well, the other aspects far shadow
the paper work and the long drives.
It is nigh on fifty years now...and I still talk about those days.
The warmth, the fraternalism, the pride...will remain with you always...you only got one shot at it...so go for it! Good luck from
an old Teke who helped train lots of younger ones...

[sigmaceli]

bump!

Is there any word from those who were in their final interviews? I'm hoping for some good news!

[hannahgirl]

One of my girls at the chapter I advise just went this weekend for her DG interview and is expecting a phone call this week.