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Yep. Conventioneering! Except you get to learn about talc processing and talk to sales reps who are really big into talc processing.
I've never been to a convention. :(
Honestly, I like to avoid them. They sound fun at first, but then you realize that you're going to be in a room with strangers for 8 hours and at the last minute you realize, "would anyone really notice if I just skipped out?" And, "why do I always get invited to the talc and sulphates convention and not the candy convention?"
I do travel a lot for work, and frequently see conventioneers at hotels. The Excruciating Implantable Medical Device Convention (with posters) looked amazing. I honestly thought about crashing that one.
I'm in tech. We have.... Different conferences.
I actually left a job because every other employee was sent to attend a conference, and when it was "my turn" the word was that they were just... Not going to be sending anyone to conferences anymore.
At the last minute, management decided to go to the conference I was supposed to attend, without any of the lower level employees (it was just managers).
I was.... Salty about it.
.... I still am.
I'd be salty about that too!