So, you want to be a General Manager? Or maybe a "Director of Marketing and/or Sales? Chief Chef, Kitchen Manager or Rooms Manager? Make it your career...for a lifetime?
Move to Switzerland where you start at the bottom, young and eager, and work your way to the top, white table linens and all, check in guests, carry bags, hand out keys, call on convention clients, sign contracts, manage staff.
Do it all. Then, at 40, you're in.
Not here in America, that has now gone by the way of high button shoes. In Tucson, the fanciful Marriott nestled into the Tucson Mountains, thrown up in 2005, indebted to $145 million, crashed a year later in the boom/bust, has now gone up for auction. The big deal money guys can't float any more credit and on the auction block steps March 2, it goes to the highest bidder. I'll be there.
It looks like Versailles. No kiddin.
The staff? Oh, I imagine they're well paid and the new owners will say, " no need to panic, we can use you, please stay."
And the staff, if they are smart, will warm up their resumes, put them on the market and get the hell out as soon as possible. NOT THEIR FAULT. It is the nature of the biz today in the good ole US of A. Staff is fungible, expendable and turned around like laundry cart loads. That's why the quality of new-hires ain't so good any more....they probably won't be around career-wise if you catch my drift.
There are two other high-powered high-dollar, world-class resorts in the mountains high over the Tucson, Arizona landscape headed in the same direction. And the fate of the staffs all down hilled for the same rock pile as the Quality Inns and Holiday Inns of the past.
They are just jobs now, Check out the resumes of these folks: no more 5 years, or 8 or 10 years of rich, full experience at any one employer. You will be lucky to find three (3) full years of length at any one hotel or resort for anyone before some hotel "investor" buys or sells their job out of existence to someone who can find a cheaper replacement.
Welcome to the 21`st century of the Hospitality Industry.
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