Diaz was an accountant in Colombia in the mid-1980s. He has 10 years of experience in the sector. Until she moved from Colombia to the United States and pursued a different career due to her living situations. Ms. Diaz began working as an accountant after high school. She came from a low-income family that couldn't afford to send her to college, but she gained all her experience working on the job. In the 1970s there weren't many jobs a woman could do unless she wanted to cook, clean or raise children. Ms. Diaz stated that my mother was a housekeeper during the day and washed the neighbors' clothes at night. His mother even cooked lunch for many construction workers around her neighbor just to put food on the table and clothes on her son's back. Ms. Diaz said her mother worked hard and always advised her children to go to school because they didn't have to work as hard as she did. Once she finished high school, Ms. Diaz was offered a job in factory accounting. She had this opportunity because she was a good student and her math teacher was married to the factory manager. Ms. Diaz was an excellent math student, so she became interested in accounting work, and it was also better than cooking or cleaning, she said. She worked as an accountant for about 2 years until the manager of the accounting department decided to teach her more accounting concepts and methods. This made the job easier for the accounting manager and