WHEN WHAT YOU CHOOSE TO DO CHOOSES YOU
A few months ago, I met a woman who I thought was brave. She had started her career as an engineer a few decades ago, back when there were few women engineers and even fewer engineers who were women and, as she is, African American. Though she was well enough regarded to ride out her time in the corporate world and end it with something like S’s and V’s and P’s in her job title, she turned her back on that success and stability to start her own business, a line of skin care products. The recipes for her products were inspired by home remedies from her grandmother’s garden, and she wanted to share their benefits. Oh, she did this, by the way, while raising three children as a single mother,…
