Create Your Own Workplace

Maria Rosales always dreamed of owning her own business and had the know-how to do it. She grew up helping her parents run a restaurant, market, and farm in Mexico, and later helped her sister with her work at a banana export business. But when Rosales immigrated to the United States, she found she lacked the formal education and capital to start her own business. So she took a job on a Silicon Valley electronics assembly line.