| After losing her job and home in 1984,
Lynn Carr was living on the streets of St. Charles, Montana, with her
five-year-old son. "We slept in our car for about a week," she said, "but then
it was sold." As she moved from one friend's house to another, Carr began working toward a high-school- equivalence diploma, listening to self-help tapes and making cheesecakes. After developing some new methods which she thought were pretty good, she offered her cakes to a restaurant. They sold out in a matter of hours. The following year, she met a man at a church service and before long, they married. Carr began selling the cheesecakes out of their home. Later she opened a cheesecake company. As business became better and better, Carr didn't forget where she came from. All the women she hires are mothers or high-school dropouts (退学者)--workers most other employers wouldn't like to hire. Her dozen workers make 100 to 150 cakes a week and Cart owes her success to her employees. She says, "We're going to have a learning center and a day-care center in the company. Part of the workday will be spent studying for high-school-equivalence diplomas." Recently, a 33-year-old woman with three children to raise was referred to Cart. She hired her at once. "It has been a real blessing," the woman said. |