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Personal Accomplishment

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The personal accomplishment I am grateful for is finding my own solution to attend and afford college. In order to achieve this, I had to change my Visa status and start a small self-employed business with my parents. After researching a profitable business that would require little start-up money, we settled on a cleaning business. I had to learn how to acquire permits, start a Limited Liability Company, and change our Visa statuses. During the early stages of the business, my parents mostly worked upwards of 12 hours a day, while I raised my then four year-old sister. A few nights a week, I left my sister with my boyfriend, now husband, to go clean buildings. When I wasn’t physically cleaning the accounts, I caught up with the email correspondents

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