Cody R. Teets began her remarkable career in 1980 at a McDonald’s restaurant in Denver, Colorado. Today she is vice president and general manager of the Rocky Mountain region for McDonald’s USA, responsible for nearly 800 restaurants. She lives in the Denver area with her husband, Dan, and her two sons, Colton and Jackson. Profits from the sale of the book, Golden Opportunity, are being donated to Ronald McDonald House. For more information visit: http://rmhc.org/

Golden Opportunity is a myth-busting collection of 44 profiles of people who went from flipping burgers to building remarkable careers in business, the arts, politics, science, the military, and sports. Over the past six decades, millions of teens have earned their first paychecks under the golden arches. Whether they stayed for a year or a career, they learned work habits, basic skills, and the business principles that have made McDonald’s one of the best-run companies in the world. These are a few of their stories, in their own words, disproving the stereotype of the dead-end McJob.