How Being A Motel Maid Helped Me Become Successful

Jennifer Openshaw, a personal finance expert and author, explains here how her experience being a motel maid at age 15 transformed her and what she thinks people everywhere need to do to put themselves on a path for success.

By Jennifer Openshaw

My experience as a young girl of what the term "work ethic" really meant began with a fib.
I was 14, growing up in Southern California. My mother had divorced when I was 5, left to raise me and my two younger brothers. She didn't have a formal education, so she had to work two full-time jobs as a waitress to make ends meet.