I hope you are all busy sending out resumes like I am.
I ordered business cards:
Go to vistaprint.com and you can order 250 for FREE except after you pay for shipping and other charges including an electronic version of it to include with your emailed resumes, it will cost you about $30.00. Not bad for free stuff, right? LOL They have lots of designs and choices.Everyone should post your card here when you get it so we can see.
Anyway the good news is...I got a job! It's two one-week tours of New England fall foliage, back to back, leaving from and returning to JFK. Dates are 10/8 and 10/15, so I have plenty of time to learn what the hell to do! As of now I sleep with my ITMI binder, hoping to absorb what's in there by osmosis. I am also mapping and routing and researching and filling out those annoying charts!
So good luck everyone, it REALLY can happen!
I hope you all know that you can post on this blog too, you don't just have to reply to my posts.
When you sign in you click on "New Post".
See you on the road, or in the airport, or at the train station or somewhere in the world!
Love, A.
17 comments:
Alice,
Congratulations on your job! I know you will do great, please let us know how it goes. Also thank you for doing this blog.
Keep on traveling!
Megan
Greetings and salutations! Congratulations to Alice. Go Girl! I know you'll be a big hit tiptoeing through the Fall Foliage. I miss all of you, lets stay in touch.. Hi Megan! Michael
Hi Michael,
I hope things are going well for you too. I sure did enjoy having you in class. If (when) I get to D.C. I am definitely looking you up. I would love to visit Kenya with you. Have a wonderful day!
Megan
Congrats! You will do an amazing job, again like Megan said let us know how it goes, I would love to be a fly on your shoulder for that tour. I always enjoyed when you got on the microphone. Well, I will have to admit i have sent out my resumes and such and all and I am just hanging out till then. Might head back to the ship earn some money and regain my tan we shall see. Send us a postcard-virtual one that is. As much as I love warm weather areas, I always do love the changing of the trees. Well, talk to you soon.
Michael and Megan hello to you both. Michael, I might be coming down there to visit my sister soon, so we will have to meet up. Talk laters
Alice,
I'm so proud of you for jumping off the cliff! You GO girl! I chickened out when I saw the e-mail from Sunchaser because I haven't been to New England in twenty years. Did you just call and ask them if you could go on a preview tour? You will be fantastic.
Hi! everyone. We're trying to dodge all the rain and wind from the slew of hurricanes that decided to make life interesting-just like life with my teenager!
He got both ears pierced while I was in California.
I love reading comments from everyone. I hope to see many of you in Texas.
Alice. Way to go young lady. Your on your way to an exciting life. So Happy for you hun. Take some pics for us let us know how it goes lol . Im sure it will be fantastic and thanks for the tips on the free stuff lol. I hope more people have the same experience as you did hun ... just a matter of time and Alice thanks for the website hun Miss you and everyone from class .. Im sure we will run into each other down the road or across the sea..
Ciao Bella baci
Hi Everyone,
I hope everthing is going well. Does anyone have any good info about working the Inauguration other than local tours? I do not think I would have time to get my D.C. license. Also I was wondering if everyone was still planning on going to the symposium? I hope to see you all there.
Best wishes!
Megan
Judy, when I got the email from ITMI I happened to be at my computer so I immediately sent my cover letter and resume. Sandy called me about 45 minutes later and we spoke a while then she called me back the next day and told me they wanted me for two back-to-back tours.
The practice trip I am taking is with my brother who has a 40' motor home and so we are going to do the exact tour beginning this Friday. I will get familiar with the route, find the rest areas and go to the hotels and introduce myself. Hopefully that will take some of the nervousness away when I actually do the real tour. Everyone please cross your fingers! You KNOW I will have about a gallon of water on that front seat with me for when the drymouth hits! LOL
Hi all.. I have most of the information you will need if you want to get your DC tour guide license. Just let me know how much or how little of the details you would like to have..
iv been offered four days work during the inauguration, rate of pay is $375 per day plus some meals and transport costs.. the company is also offering to pay up to $400 toward airline tickets and of course they will provide a single room for the guide.. how does that rate of pay sound? Let me know what you think!! Michael
Hi Michael,
Hope things are going well.
I think the rate of pay sounds pretty good. Though you might be able to ask for a little more since you are local and they would save on airfare and hotel. Do you know of any meet and greets or anything that does not require the license? I do not live near DC and flying in to take the test without definite work would be too costly. Are you going to the symposium? Hope to see you there.
Best regards!
Megan
Mike, yes please post the information for everyone if that is possible. Or post a link where we can get it.
The inauguration offer sounds good, congrats!
Alice
Alice,
Glad to hear the news, especially since it saved me a follow-up call to Sunchaser and if I'd actually been hired for that one and taken it (which I would have done), I would have been immediately fired from my current job, which I am not ready to have happen as much as I hate it. So, you getting it actually probably saved me thousands of dollars, not to mention worrying about my future with all this financial news. Anyway, I am truly glad to hear you got some tours, and I would pay to hear a tape of it. I'm sure you'll do fine, and that the guests will have an incredible and very entertaining time, at least once you guys make it off the Van Wyck.
Andrew, thanks glad I helped you with your career decisions! I am still preparing for my New England tours in October and I just got booked for 3 more NYC South Street Seaport day trips. I already did one of them so these should go smoothly right????? I also worked a couple of days in the office of the company that booked me for the tours.
Hope everyone is doing well and hope to meet up at Symposium.
Hi all.. I have enclosed some info that I have sent to a couple of Einsteins that asked me to help them get there DC License. (my new email is mikewaters801@aol.com) Here's the website for DC Government: http://mblr.dc.gov/information/bbl/results.asp .. You will require a Tour Guide License (B).. As I read the information, you can make your application by mail. Once they have accepted your application, they will schedule you to take the exam. The exam must (of course) be taken in person.
Some of the requirements are kinda strange, but are routine for applicants for DC licenses. So you may want to receive the forms by mail, complete as many items as possible from home, then make a day trip to DC to complete those 'strange' requirements, then submit your application and get your exam date in person. Then return to DC to actually take the exam.
I am happy to keep you posted on any additional leads I get for "The Week." Best regards..
Michael
How do I create an original post? So far I have only learned how to make comments. Thanks.. M
I know this is a duplicate but just for those that don't subscribe to the new posts...
Do you want to help students have an unforgettable class trip to Washington D.C. during the 2009 Presidential Inauguration?
EF is recruiting Tour Directors for our Smithsonian Student Travel tours to DC in January 2009!
As an EF Tour Director you will have the opportunity to lead a group of students and their teachers on Smithsonian Student Travel tours through DC during this. Tour Directors are responsible to reconfirm all pre-booked tour arrangements, manage the tour itinerary, supervise the tour logistics (i.e. hotel check-in and activity coordination), give interesting and educational coach commentaries, control on-tour payments and paperwork, lead walking tours, offer suggestions for and organize free-time activities, solve on-the-spot problems, and upload photos and captions daily for EF’s state of the art TourLink service.
You must be knowledgeable about the DC area and major sights, as well as the history, culture and current developments (please note that we book local DC city guides to lead a 4-hour guided sightseeing tour of DC)
Tour Directors work with EF as independent contractors. Inauguration tours require a commitment to work during the following dates: January 17th – 21st, 2009. Training days will be provided in the fall and early winter.
Additional tour directing opportunities are available during March, April, May and June in DC, as well as other major east coast cities.
Interested candidates should email their resume and cover letter to ea.tourdirectors@ef.com. Additional details and a copy of our application form will be sent to all inquiries.
To learn more about Smithsonian Student Travel please visit www.smithsonianstudenttravel.com.
Hi Alice, thanks for this blog . I am finally taking the time to send out resumes. Love reading along regarding your time on the road, can't wait for the fall trip... Way to go !.
Have had lots of work here in Seattle /meet /greets,conventions, private events /airport and cruise ship work. It is slowing waydown.
So now it is Fall and will be contacting local tour companies for work here.
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