Personal Narrative: A Career In The Sorority World

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In the sorority world each organization hires recent grads from their organization to work as "Consultants" for a year or two. The job as a consultant is to travel the country working with collegiate chapters on various things: fundraising , chapter organization, officer training, chapter colonization, the list goes on and on. The women selected for these positions spend the entire year after they graduate college living out of a suitcase helping the colligate chapters of their organization become they best they can be. Now if you were to ask any of my friends or family they would tell you that I am a die hard sorority woman! I was brought up around greek life as a young child, having a mother who is greek (and just so happens to be my sorority

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