Illustrations by Ray Vella
Angelica Menefee
Founder and president of Trampoline, Inc., which designs curricula for elementary schools
Baltimore, Md.
It's a little stressful when you're working from home, because your work and your home are constantly blending. You get up to go to the mailbox and find that you're throwing in a little laundry. But I can attend a school event in the afternoon and then come home, go inside my office, and shut the door until midnight. It's hard to turn off the workday sometimes. If you get in your mind, "I'm going to work from 8 to 4," and the phone rings at 4:30, it's hard not to answer. I think you have to have a lot of self-discipline.
