Her first job was drying the dishes from early morning to late evening in the restaurant at 'Strömparterren' down below the bridge 'Norrbro', close to the Royal Castle.

From an early age she had the very strong ambition that some day she would have her own company in the hotel and restaurant business.

In 1884 she bought the railroad hotel in Bollnäs, where she spent many years of her life and married Pehr Skogh.

She was also appointed the manager for a number of other hotels as she soon got a reputation to rapidly increase the business with new marketing ideas in both the hotel and restaurang business, for instance increasing the use of vegetables in order to cut down on the expensive meat, and introduced new ideas in the tourist business by working together with the London-based Thomas Cook travel agency in order to be able to offer luxury accommodations combined with hunting and fishing in Sweden for rich British visitors.

She built private telephone lines connecting her hotels before the telephone system was introduced on a larger scale in Sweden, and installed central heating (steam-heating systems) and electricity with steam-engine driven electric generators in her hotels.

She lived there until 1922 when the costs for the big house finally forced her to sell the entire building to pay the loans and move out.

She spent the last four years of her life in a small private flat in "Bolinders Palace", a building adjacent to the Grand Hôtel and part of the hotel complex.