Time and Life Management Skills: These are crucial and you won’t last long or be happy without them. Because you’re given so much responsibility right away you need to quickly learn to prioritize, manage tasks, meet deadlines, delegate tasks, and effectively badger people to keep the project on tasks. When you’re dealing with a project this large and important there are always lots of things going on and if you don’t have these essential skills you’re going to struggle. With travel and sometimes long hours (depending on customer’s timeline) it’s also important to learn life management skills quickly. When you’re traveling and working long hours at the hotel for a week or two it’s good to learn to let it go on the weekends and enjoy a social life so you don’t get burnt out. This can also mean working shorter hours when you’re not traveling to spend time with family/friends and get things done at home. Some people struggle with this work-life balance which causes them to burn out.