Senir Citizens, did you have a mentor when you started your career? What did that person do for you?

Very early on. While I was in high school I was asked to take lunch money in the cafeteria line. Working with the office ladies at the school let them encourage me and even recommend me for a bank job. What started out as a part time job after school resulted in a long banking career from the ground up. Great people from all the different companies as the profession changed from hand written records to computer generated. Loved changing with all the new laws and regulations. Thank you high school office ladies and one in particular, Honey.

When I went into management in an Early Childhood Education program, my first supervisor taught me two important things: It's okay to be afraid. Feel the fear and do what you have to anyway.

And, Impatience breeds incompetence. Take time to think before you act. It's fine to tell people that you'll get back to them _________. (Insert the deadline). Keep that deadline.

My mentor was about 10 years younger than I. I'm retired and she's now CEO of the organization. I'm not at all surprised.

Not really, but I got a lot of help from various people as I moved from job to job within the Company for 40 years.

No single person, but I learned from many more experienced nurses the best way to deal with situations. I had all the classroom and practical hours while in nurses training, but there is nothing like good ole OJT!

l had one when l was working i a bank. I was looking for a home, found one and he, the president of the bank, told me how to get the home with nothing down, occupy and lived in the home to save money for my down payment. And to top things off company employees do not have to pay closing. The passed away and to this day l pay or his soul.

absolutely - a fellow business owner who had been down the road before me - he helped smooth some of the bumpy spots in the road - what to say when you fire a deadbeat employee, etc etc.. made all the difference in the world - both retired and still good friends.

It was my uncle. He took me by the ear and enrolled me in a trade school. I was wasting away working in a gas station. Now I am an engineer. My uncle died of brain cancer after that, but I owe him a lot for what he did for this confused kid.

Had a whole lot of mentors - from hired farm hands to platoon SGT's.

A filipino women in real estate our neighbor Got be started in rentals

i dont have a career