http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/someone_you_should_know&id=6102012
Click link above for whole story.
Straight out of college, a chemist went to work for a global chemical corporation. She got promotion after promotion- until she lost her job.
"I'd never in my lifetime been unemployed. It was my first time being unemployed but I had given myself this discipline while I was unemployed that if I'd go to work for 8 hours. I'd spend 8 hours a day looking for job," said Linda Boasmond.
That search paid off when she landed a position as technical director at Cedar Concepts, a small chemical company on Chicago's South Side.
"Our main customers are other chemical companies and we sell our raw materials to them and it goes into other companies, such as Proctor and Gamble," said Boasmond.
A graduate of DePaul University with a degree in chemistry, Boasmond was hired as technical director of Cedar Concepts in 1999. Five years later she became the company's owner. Read the whole story.
0 comments:
Post a Comment