I was offered a job that I couldn't take, so I recommended my mom for the role. It helped her start a new career in her 40s.

The author (not pictured) recommended her mother for a caregiving job.

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• I was sick of watching my mother overwork herself for low pay.
• When I was offered a job as a caregiver, I recommended my mother for the role.
• She took the job and it jump-started her new career.

All my life, I saw my mother take odd jobs to earn extra income. I used to watch her leave early in the morning to open the local Burger King before sunrise.

Though she didn't attend college...