Importance Of Career Role Model

Do we need a career role model?
“To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.”
- Tony Dorsett. (Former Running Back in the National Football League)
A role model is someone who other individuals aspire to be like, either in the present or in the future. Does everyone need a role model? There are many people who have achieved great things in life without having a role model. Is a career role model important to progress in your professional life? A career is the period that spans all the working years of our life but, sometimes in work or in a monogamous marriage, you only get one chance to get it right.
Do you think a mentor, guru, guide, trainer or consultant could have

Mentor, guru, guide, trainer, consultant, all are some forms of teaching, then why can’t they be our role models? Why is a career role model is different from all of them?
Role models are those whom we admire for their achievements, they are more there to set the “aspirational” aspects while individuals who help us with the “operational” aspects of our life and work.
For many people, historical figures or freedom fighters or friends will be their role models, but for me my own aunt who is the Principal of Madras Medical Mission is my role model. Before I wax eloquent about her I want to introduce you to two great role models who are worthy of adulation.
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood, now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” - Marie

It was not too difficult for me to choose one role model even though every person has pluses and minuses. When I was young, my role model was my mom who taught me to face challenges and to overcome failure. For everyone their parents will be a role model till a certain level of time likewise, she was my role model till 10th until I grew older, and my thoughts changed. Since then my aunt has been my role model. One incident solidified this for me. Every person is likely to meet hurdles in life. It was true in my case too. My first setback was the inability to cope with my grandfather’s death. Just when I had seemingly recovered, I tasted abject failure, failing to pass the 12th standard examinations in my first attempt. I thought academic life was over and saw visions of career doors closing for me before it had even begun to open. I began sinking into the abyss of depression, refusing to come out of my