I organise conferences and events, it occasionally involves travel but it's largely budget handling and negotiation. I have to negotiate raets for almost everything and depending on the event, there can be a lot of things. I have to organise it so it all falls into the budgets which somethines isn't hard, but some clients have seperate budgets for everything, so you can't go higher in one area but offset it by going lower in another. And some are very stubborn about that. Then once the rates are negoritated for everything I have to draw up a contract, a lot of the T&A's are standard copy and paste fare, but the unique info I have to ready, then that get's proofed, then sent to the client and host, then I have to follow up to get them to sign it, thenm I have to follow up again, then again, then maybe it will get signed. Then in certain instances, my presence will be required at the event, either before, during, or after, or a combination.
I'm still getting into the swing of it though, I've only been doing it for a little over 3 months. I've just finalised some contracts for a corporate event in France next year, which net's me a free holiday over there, well it's supposed to be a working holiday but we'll see about that.
Because we use a lot of hotels conference facilities I get a a massive discount at some hotels, £35 per night at a Radisson Edwardian aint half bad. I wish I had this job sooner, I've spent that much on the odd weekend away for me and the missues in the last 12 months, anyhow the jobs a good'un, it's paying the bills nicely and I haven't felt a massive hit from going back to full time work after a year and a half almost working part time only. I haven't organised anything major yet, but our company does do big events like the BAFTA's, and we did the Edinburgh Tatu. I'm a long way from something like that, but you never know.
But I should be recieving some money for my birthday tho'. 
