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Paoli
High Tech Professional turns to building
global Boomers community!
 Jieranai
T. Maier had been in the business world with a background
in finance, planning, information systems, internet
research and database management. She worked all over
the world. (London, Bangkok, Teheran and in the US).
She was an executive secretary to the President and
VP, customer planner, a Human Resource Rep and a office
manager, she managed and was a Corp. Strategic planner
(for a division of 240 millions in sales) and also developed
several planning systems for the Planning, Finance,
and Marketing depts. For over 10 years, Jieranai worked
for a major semi-conductor corporation as a Sr. Programmer/Systems
Analyst and other varied I.T related positions. During
this time, she started to discover something else she
cared deeply about.
She envisioned an Internet community that provided clean
fun, opportunities for self-renewal, a place to keep
informed about news and events affecting baby boomers.
She also wanted to help bridge the generation gap and
promote understanding between cultures, one of the reasons
she purposely gave the site an International focus.
Today www.boomersint.org has received over 5000 positive
comments on the site. Jieranai was interviewed by an
L.A. Times reporter who mentioned the Boomers International
web site in a news article about boomers. She was interviewed
by a New York Times report. The site is being used as
a reference by CNN Television. It was featured as (Mother
of all Boomer sites) in The Authors' CHOICE: on The
Fourth Turning Web Sites (Seasonal History and Generations.)
As this hobby became a full time effort, Jieranai decided
to finally leave the high stress and high paying corporate
life in Silicon Valley. She bought a small ranch in
Southern California.
Now she is able to enjoy her activities in the PRESENT.
She is now able to pursue her dreams of spending more
time with her children, living in the country, writing
poetry and gardening. She is also running several businesses
with her family and on her own. Her family businesses
include an avocado grove, a small vineyard, a landscaping
design company, a talent agency (in Hollywood) and several
Internet web sites.
Jieranai describes that she now enjoys her new activities
because she has the opportunity to make people happy
and feel special. She believes the world is a nicer
place when people are happy.
What can we learn from Jieranai's story?
When you combine all of your passions and actually spend
your time with them in the present, you feel fulfilled
and a sense that your life is making a greater difference
in the bigger picture. This is something which many
of us seek in mid-life.
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