Betzaida Montero Ulate was born in 1973 in San Pedro, Barva de Heredia, Costa Rica where she still lives. She came from a difficult family background, with an alcoholic father, and had to work from a young age to help support her five siblings and mother. Despite financial hardships, she excelled in school. After high school she studied secretarial skills and then human resources. She has worked in human resources for 24 years, including currently as a professor, and has been married for 18 years with two daughters.
Betzaida Montero Ulate was born in 1973 in San Pedro, Barva de Heredia, Costa Rica where she still lives. She came from a difficult family background, with an alcoholic father, and had to work from a young age to help support her five siblings and mother. Despite financial hardships, she excelled in school. After high school she studied secretarial skills and then human resources. She has worked in human resources for 24 years, including currently as a professor, and has been married for 18 years with two daughters.
Betzaida Montero Ulate was born in 1973 in San Pedro, Barva de Heredia, Costa Rica where she still lives. She came from a difficult family background, with an alcoholic father, and had to work from a young age to help support her five siblings and mother. Despite financial hardships, she excelled in school. After high school she studied secretarial skills and then human resources. She has worked in human resources for 24 years, including currently as a professor, and has been married for 18 years with two daughters.
Betzaida was born on February 21st, 1973 at Hospital de la
Mujer Carit. She has lived in San Pedro, Barva de Heredia all her life. She has five siblings. When she was a child, she had to struggle with a lot of family difficulties. Her father was an alcoholic; for that reason, her mother had to work as a seamstress in order to raise her five children. Since she was 7 years old, she had to collect coffee and clean houses to help her mother. At the age of 14, Betzaida had the opportunity to go to the United States with a scholarship; however, her parents did not let her go. She feels that experience changed her because now she can see life through a different perspective. She knows that in some moments she made mistakes, but she has had the maturity to recognize them. In that way, she has been able to learn and grow. Some of her nicknames were Ojos Bellos and La Macha. She considers that she was an excellent student regardless of the poverty she went through in her childhood. Despite of the economic limitations, she was an active teenager and got involved in many of her high school activities. After she graduated from high school, she got a secretarial degree in Instituto de Educacin Comunitaria (IPEC). Betzaida wanted to the study at Universidad Nacional, but she could not because she was facing a tough economical situation. She could not study there, for she had a full time job and did not match with the university schedule. At first, what she desired to study was forest engineering, yet life had another fate. She made the decision to enroll in human resources in a private college called Universidad Monterrey that was located in San Jos. In the 1990s, this university had one of the most remarkable educational plan. Her first job was working with a lawyer where she worked for a year and a half. It helped her to finance her studies in human resources. Now, this is her current profession with 24 years working on it. In 2010, she began to work at UTN as a professor. She has been married to Orlando Guerrero for 18 years. Betzaida and Orlando met when a friend of her introduced him during a coffee break at work. Then, he asked her out on an unusual skating date. They have two beautiful daughters. Mariana is the oldest daughter with 17 years old, and she is studying her third language in Germany. Jimena is 15 years old and is in the ninth grade. Both are really obedient and have an assertive communication with their parents. The word family has a strong meaning for Betzaida. After God, she believes her family is the most important bond. She admires several members of her family, such as her grandmother Elba, her Uncle William, her mother Maria Lilliam and her husband Orlando. If Betzaida had the opportunity to meet a famous person, she would like to meet Jeffrey Preston Bezos. He is the owner of Amazon Corporation, and Betzaida considers him as a genius and an interesting person. If she had had the opportunity to meet a personality from the past, she would have liked to meet Mother Teresa of Calcutta. She really appreciates the capacity that Teresa had to share her own things in order to help needy people around the world. Betzaida believes that selfishness does not enable us to act in a kind way. Happiness is found in simple things. Betzaida says.