Member-only story
They Won’t Teach You About Her In Business Schools
Fortune without fame.
It’s not that difficult to become a millionaire in the long term, rather it’s the anxiety of not becoming a millionaire before 30 is what stressing millennial's these days.
The current entrepreneurial environment finds you worthless if you didn’t manage to build a 5 or 6-figure empire before 30. That’s kind of depressive.
There is something weird about this “30” age mark.
Anyways.
Let’s look at the story of a woman who went on to become a millionaire without gaining any fame and she didn’t give a dime about “30”
“Anne Scheiber” : A brief history(1893–1995)
A jew woman who was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1893 in a big family and had nine siblings. Her dad died while she was quite young and was brought up by her mother alone.
Despite her difficult conditions, she went to acquire a degree in law but decided to work as an auditor for the United States IRS.
She worked for the same company for 23 years till her retirement in 1944, when she was 51. She was never promoted in her entire career. This was because of the antisemitism and discrimination against women in US corporations during those times. She also…