💬 Opinion 2d ago · David Dayen

She Bought a Business. It Almost Killed Her.

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She Bought a Business. It Almost Killed Her.
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Carola Hagenau of Castle Rock, Colorado, was out of work but not out of hope. Her corporate employer eliminated her job during the COVID pandemic and offered to find her something else within the organization. But Hagenau, who was 56 at the time, didn’t welcome a lateral move. “I said, ‘Goodness, I’m of the age where I really feel I can do something great!” she told me with a bubbly confidence that seemed like her permanent attitude.



Both of Hagenau’s kids were electricians and she had been a

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