Forbes has assembled reminiscences by a variety of business leaders of their first, big break.
Bobbi Brown’s story is one of the more interesting ones. An excerpt:
Freelance makeup artistry is a difficult job. You're overjoyed when you're working, and when it's quiet, you think, "Oh my God--how am I going to pay the rent?" To succeed, you always have to promote yourself and make contacts on the social scene, and I was never one of those people who went out a lot at night. But I did well because I always tried to be nice, which made me an anomaly in the fashion industry. You can see caricatures of the industry in The Devil Wears Prada, and guess what? They're not caricatures.
Read the rest of her story here.
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