A conversation with IIDA International Board President Ronnie Belizaire
Ronnie Belizaire didn’t grow up dreaming of becoming an interior designer. She was in college getting a business degree and had an offer to work full time at a public accounting firm. She had what she called “an early quarter-life crisis” and decided accounting was not her calling. She Googled “What am I supposed to do with my life” and an aptitude test popped up. Belizaire took five of them and three came back with interior designer as the best profession for her. “I wanted to bang my head against the wall, because I thought, ‘I don’t want to decorate people’s houses.’ Ultimately, I decided to try to learn more about the profession and cold called people using the phone book. I called and said, ‘Hi, I see you are an interior designer. What do you do everyday?’,” she said. With the help of those in the profession willing to …
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