Let's partner together to create amazing experiences
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Let's partner together to create amazing experiences -
Host me!
I am so excited to be hosted by you for these reasons:
1) I LOVE how tech-focused you are as a company. Since completing UX and graphic design certificates, I greatly appreciate a travel agency with a full team of engineers, designers, and product managers.
2) Hello, neighbor! I am in Manhattan and so are you!
3) I think our travel philosophies line up well. I love great value and that doesn’t mean getting the cheapest. Of course, it is fun to not have a budget, but I think it is a real craft to put a vacation together where you spend on the things that will have the biggest and most meaningful impact
4) I miss not being in a cohort and I love the way you describe your training program and community
I first learned about FORA during the HAR Host Week and I was immediately impressed. I started filling out your survey on February 8th but got stuck on sharing social media links or a page that represented me well. Meanwhile, I completed HAR’s new course for starting a travel agency and feel ready to jump in. I also booked an Azamara cruise for me and three others and I would love to transfer it to myself as the travel advisor - so time is running out for that!
About my social media, (sigh), . . .
For the majority of my working life, I have been in a commission-only/mostly sales environment working with luxury home furnishings. My work was very stressful and it consumed my life. I always went on vacation, because I consider that essential, but I had no work/life balance.
My career crashed in 2018 and I knew I needed to make a change. I was very embarrassed, and confused and was having an identity crisis, aka - a mid-life crisis. I did not want this to play out on social media, so I essentially left. I thought I would take a year to re-group and then launch back in with a shiny new career in tech. I had a bit of a stall and the pandemic happened, etc.
While I was working on my 9-month UX training, I started pet-sitting on Rover. I absolutely love cats and it was possibly the most fun job I had ever had, but I was embarrassed to tell my old network that I had become a domestic worker. As travel picked up, so did my business and I have essentially become a full-time cat-sitter. I will share my profile with you so you can see my commitment to keeping my human clients happy:
I want to launch back onto social media as a travel advisor. I have always been super passionate about travel and often am more excited about other people's vacations than they are, LOL.
For fun: here is a cat video I created during my Adobe Premiere Pro class at FIT:
I look forward to hearing from you soon! Thank you for your consideration.
Gretchen Auer
gretchendesign@gmail.com
646-729-6248