All Lina Dahi wanted was a lobster roll from her favorite Santa Clarita sushi restaurant. But the 30-year-old stay-at-home mom, who immigrated here from Thailand five years ago, couldn’t bring herself to ask her husband for $20.
“He’s done everything for our family; he makes all the money, buys all the food, and pays the rent,” Dahi said of her husband, who owns a construction company. “I clean the house and do the cooking and help raise our daughter, but I make nothing. I felt guilty asking him for 20 dollars.”
But once her daughter started preschool in the spring, Dahi decided it was time to make her own money. She had sold wedding packages for a hotel in Thailand, so she began searching for sales positions on job websites. She knew nothing about the solar industry, but sales openings with Solar Energy Partners kept popping up.
Dahi applied several times…