Blog | Linda Oladunni

Blog | Linda Oladunni

Successful entrepreneur Linda Oladunni Values Academic Preparation

As a business owner, the hiring of personnel to oversee daily operations, to supervise payment duties, and the training of cashiers and attendants is a vital part of business success for Linda Adeyinka Oladunni, a Nigerian immigrant who has built a successful business in Harlingen, Texas in the United States. Skills with financial records and allocation, and the training she received in public relations, come into play as Oladunni prepares and reviews profit and loss statements and takes the temperature of the community, gaining daily insight into the progress of her business as a positive statement for her neighbors and travelers, and for her success.

Linda Oladunni has learned as a successful gas station owner entrepreneur that steady gas prices yields a few pennies for every gallon sold. But when gas prices vary wildly, station owners like her make less, as it is nearly impossible to keep up with pump increases and retain customers.

Formal education is not a necessary requirement to be a gas station owner, but Linda Oladunni’s Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Management from University of Texas at Brownsville in the United States gives her valuable background knowledge and insight into the sales, marketing and administration of her business. The public relations classes Oladunni took as part of her Degree coursework pays off in terms of her communications skills and interpersonal relations with customers and business neighbors. Oladunni’s success in her entrepreneurial efforts is due in no small part to her careful academic preparation for the business world.
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Background and Education Coincide for Linda Oladunni

Immigrant Linda Oladunni of Lagos, Nigeria has used her work skills since her graduation from Western College secondary school of education in her native country. Not one to remain stationary, Oladunni worked her way to England, where she worked for a time for the postal service. However, Oladunni had higher goals in mind, and soon immigrated to the United States, enrolling for summer courses at the venerable John Jay University of the City University of New York. In short order Oladunni had moved on to an entrepreneurial venture, a day care center in Hyattsville, Maryland.

The determination and self-confidence it took for an immigrant foreign to the United States to learn the rules and regulations of child care in Hyattsville, Maryland, founding an independent business with such responsibility, is indicative of the admirable drive and ambition of Oladunni. Oladunni directed the activities of the child care center, taking care to establish roles and direction for workers there which would build the center as a prime child care destination.

Hyattsville, Maryland is an established small community, with solid New England values and a family-based ethic. Oladunni brought her unique ability to play the different roles demanded in a business management capacity. Recognizing the needs of this tight community which demonstrated a unique diversity in its citizens, Oladunni possessed a set of talents by education and background which made her a success. Jewish, Christian, Mormon and Catholic religions live side by side in Hyattsville, and Oladunni took pride in providing fair and equal child care to all.

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Linda Oladunni Arrives in Harlingen Texas

Linda Oladunni and her husband Dr. Joseph Oladunni chose to live in Harlingen, Texas, in Cameron County, 30 miles from the Gulf coast. With a population of over 65,000, Harlingen has the distinction of having the lowest cost of living in the United States.

Harlingen, Texas is the sixth largest city in the Rio Grande Valley region of Texas in the United States, with a strategic location which makes it ideal for distribution, shipping and industry. Named for Harlingen in the Netherlands, Linda Oladunni and her husband chose to settle in a town founded in 1904 by Lon C. Hill, a founder of Native American Choctaw ancestry. In Harlingen’s infancy, its first school in 1905 opened with 15 students near founder Hill’s home, with an economy based on the production of vegetables and cotton. By the mid 80’s, this mix would change to citrus production as a major product, with grain and cotton next. Harlingen’s economy is also experiencing a rise in construction centered on the creation of retirement communities.

Linda Oladunni pursued an Associates Degree at Texas State Technical College, a state-operated system of two-year colleges with a headquarters in Waco, Texas, its oldest campus. Besides Harlingen, TSTC has campuses in Marshall, Texas, 4 campuses in West Texas, and partnership campuses with Texas State Marine Education Center in Palacios and the Richmond facility of Wharton County Junior College. Oladunni earned an Associates Degree in Business at the Harlingen campus of TSTC, a system of two-year technical institutions designed to further the education of the work force of Texas.

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