Getting Started in the Hotel Industry
In the late 1960s, Vicki moved to Minneapolis. Although it was a far cry from the rural South where she had spent her entire life, she was thrilled with her new home and came to be intrigued by something else: the hotel industry. Up to that point, Vicki had stayed in a hotel exactly twice in her entire life, both times during high school trips, and she was enthralled by the glamour of it all.
So when she started job hunting, she focused her efforts on working for a hotel and came across a listing for the Sheraton-Ritz in downtown Minneapolis. Just walking in the door gave her goose bumps, but she came to a dead stop when the interviewer told her she’d never make it in the hotel industry. Vicki took his ...