u/ThrowRA_apple_pie_

Hi!

I'm a marketing specialist handling events, hoping to find out what duties are normal in this role and what duties lie with the sales team.

Mine include:

• Setting up the coordination meetings - we have anywhere from 3-8 for the big conferences
• Ensuring attendees register and book their hotel/airfare
• Vendor communications
• Managing PP presentations
• Managing SWAG, booth, signage, and collateral to be shipped out
• Other logistics for sales attending the event
• Uploading the attendee list for ROI tracking
• Now added: Special handholding for sales by setting up and managing a conference calendar for them, sending the meeting invites for their conference meetings that I do not attend to people who have no idea who I am, researching places for sales to hold the meetings at the conference, calling restaurants to make and alter dinner reservations for sales meetings while at the conference, and other random duties because my manager volunteers herself and me to go above and beyond assigned marketing duties.

I feel as though some of my job should reside in the sales team (like that last bullet) but my boss is a micromanager and wants to exceed expectations, so she gives it to me.

So... What are normal duties for a marketing specialist working in events?

I work as a marketing specialist and help coordinate our attendance by sales at events. We have big conferences as part of that and it seems my duties change based on the sales team and how needy they decide to be.

So I'm wondering what duties other marketers perform for events and what duties lie with the sales team.

Mine include:

• Setting up the coordination meetings - we have anywhere from 3-8 for the big conferences
• Ensuring attendees register and book their hotel/airfare
• Vendor communications
• Managing PP presentations
• Managing SWAG, booth, signage, and collateral to be shipped out
• Other logistics for sales attending the event
• Uploading the attendee list for ROI tracking
• Now added: Special handholding for sales by setting up and managing a conference calendar for them, sending the meeting invites for their conference meetings that I do not attend to people who have no idea who I am, researching places for sales to hold the meetings at the conference, calling restaurants to make and alter dinner reservations for sales meetings while at the conference, and *other duties as assigned because my manager volunteers herself and me to go above and beyond assigned marketing duties.

Okay maybe this is just venting about my experience at my current employer but I'd also like to know if anyone else is in marketing and what their duties entail.

I'm 38 and have been experiencing a multitude of peri symptoms for a while. Lately, my worst one is low self-esteem.

The brain fog makes me forget everything and feel like I'm an idiot. I'm having a difficult time keeping up with information at work. It kills me because I feel like I was actually somewhat intelligent before my hormones started to go on their rollercoaster ride.

I was prescribed an estrogen patch but I worry it's not effective because it sat in the mailbox in the summer heat for 3 days, but I can't exactly just ask for a replacement to be sent to me, can I?

Anyhow.. I was just hoping to hear from others what has helped them. I'm mourning the loss of the person I used to be and feel really alone. Any advice is appreciated.

I'm in a long distance relationship (countries apart). When I first started dating my boyfriend, his mom was excited because we had a lot in common. She would tell him to say hello to me when he and I were on the phone, she asked my advice on things we had in common, and seemed like she would be happy that her son and I were together.

Fast forward some months and there was a death in the family. I traveled to be there with my boyfriend to be supportive and consequently met his whole entire family all at once. I understand it was 0% about me, they all just suffered a great loss.. but only a few members of the family actually acknowledged my presence at all, MIL included. Like, they wouldn't even acknowledge when I spoke. I didn't bring this up to my boyfriend because again, the moment in time wasn't about me but rather their grieving.

A few instances that really stuck out to me in the course of our relationship...

I don't think my boyfriend is much of a momma's boy, but she very much fawns over him. At the wake, she was stroking his face saying "My sweet boy" for about 10 seconds while I stood next to him and then she moved on without so much as a look at me.

I was wearing a shirt my boyfriend gave me and she asked him "You gave her your favorite shirt??" When he said "Yeah" she turned away and didn't say another word. (Is this a sign of jealousy?)

When I visited their country to see my boyfriend (staying at a hotel in the city), we hadn't seen each other in 5 months and were short on time so we couldn't make the several hours' trip to see his parents - which his mom guilted him about by rolling her eyes. He almost guilted me into going but I pushed back and said I just don't see how we have time to make it work and he dropped it.

After the trip, his mother told him that they (his parents) would have joined us on one of the excursions had they known. But... we never invited them.

The last straw that made me realize she didn't like me was that she completely ignored my birthday. This is a woman who is on Facebook from sunup to sundown, wishing everyone she knows happy birthday in really mushy happy birthday posts (I see the posts on her Facebook and the family Facebook pages that friended me), but not a peep from her on mine. And yes, I know it's just Fb, but it's not meaningless when there's a pattern.

I'm fearing the day that I will need to explain to my boyfriend that there will need to be boundaries with her or else she will do whatever she wants (coming to stay with us uninvited, for example - I can totally see that happening) without any regard for my feelings. She is very much a bulldozer.

I think it's extra difficult because he's been living in her house so maybe she has reverted to treating him like a baby and sees him that way? But it might just be the bulldozer personality.

I haven't had to deal with a monster in law in 10 years - or any mother in law - and I know this is just mildly annoying behavior and far from monster in law... but as a person who is not close with my family and never lets anyone bully me into anything, the whole MIL situation is feeling uncomfortable.