Ricci M. Victorio

Baby Boomer Career Goals - Dear Ricci
September 15, 2008

As a member of the Baby Boomer generation, I am often asked about my perspective in regards to my business views . . .

Dear Ricci,

What do you most want out of your career at this point in your life, compared to when you began your career as a young woman?

It has been such a long and interesting journey for me! At this point in my life, I feel I am really experiencing my stride in experience, qualifications, maturity and recognition. I am enjoying the respect from my peer group and within our business community – even though I am in a small minority of women who have succeeded in a predominately male-oriented field. I am grateful to be enjoying the financial rewards of a successful career (took lots of grit, guts and perseverance), recognition by my partners, prestige as a requested speaker and writer for many business forums – and, most of all, I am healthy enough to sustain all of this and actively participate with my wonderful family and friends. My work is so rewarding that it doesn’t feel like a job most of the time (except maybe when I am flying home late at night from across the country for the third or fourth time in a month); what I do is more of a “calling” fueled by a passion to want to make a positive difference in people’s lives.

I am adventurous and grew up with my parents drilling the precept that I could achieve anything I wanted – “if you can dream it, you can do it.” I have always been a creative entrepreneur, blending art and business to solve problems on a variety of levels in many different venues.

Posted by Ricci M. Victorio on September 15, 2008 | Comments (0)