A Pennsylvania woman whose first job was scrubbing toilets at a Baltimore McDonald’s now owns TWELVE restaurants for the fast-food giant after 44 years of hard work.

A Pennsylvania woman who began her career scrubbing toilets at McDonald’s now owns 12 of the chain’s restaurants.

Tanya Hill-Holliday has spent 44 years climbing the corporate ladder at McDonald’s after joining the team at a Baltimore restaurant in 1980.

“They told me I shouldn’t be here. They called me every name except mine,” Hill-Holliday said. CBS News Philadelphia.

“But I kept my head down and kept working,” he explained.

After holding 13 different positions within the company, including vice president, Hill-Holliday took his stock options and purchased his first restaurant, the Rosemont McDonald’s next to Villanova University, in 2005.

Hill-Holliday began working for the fast food franchise while studying at Morgan State University.

“I picked up the yellow pages at that point, started flipping through them, and saw a list of McDonald’s,” he recalled.

“I always enjoyed what I did, no matter how difficult it was to be told: ‘You have to clean a table, you have to clean the bathrooms, you have to scrub the baseboards.’ I did it,” he explained.

Hill-Holliday’s franchise is now worth about $1.5 million, and she oversees more than 600 employees.

She also serves as president of the National Association of Black McDonald’s Operators and CEO of 168 entities across the United States.

Hill-Holiday says he hopes his journey inspires young people working their first jobs.

‘Stay motivated, encouraged, prayed. I keep praying all the time,” he added.

Hill-Holiday was born in Virginia but now lives in a $700,000 home in Ardmore, Pennsylvania.