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5 Successful Women to Inspire your career

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Cal Poly chapter.

Career hunting can be a very stressful task and these women are currently slaying the career game. If you’re feeling uninspired or just bogged down with the stress of job hunting, here are five successful women at the top of their career fields.

Oprah Winfrey

Best known for her international talk show and television network, Oprah has been inspiring women for years. Her instagram is the best way to follow her on her career journey and get a glimpse into her life.

Melinda Gates

Melinda has been at the forefront of ensuring the Gates’ fortune goes to charitable causes and is the co-chair of the Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation. The foundation is the world’s largest private charitable foundation with a $40 billion trust endowment. As part of the foundation’s mission to help all people lead healthy, productive lives, she has devoted much of her work to women’s and girls’ rights.

Sara Blakely

Sara Blakely is the founder and owner of Spanx, which sells undergarments, leggings, swimwear and maternity wear in 65 countries. When she was a door-to-door fax machine sales person she made a makeshift undergarment that became her new brand Spanx.

JK Rowling

J.K. Rowling’s, Harry Potter books have become one of the best-selling books of all time and was able to create a film series and franchise out of it. Her influence has affected millions of children and adults worldwide.

Cher Wang

Cher Wang is one of the most successful female entrepreneurs in the world. She set-up her own company, HTC, selling smartphones. She has an estimated worth of $6.8 billion, her HTC smartphones have quickly gained notoriety and in 2010, accounted for 20 percent of the smartphone market.

This is just a short list of the many successful women paving the path for future careers. Follow these women on social media and learn from their careers.

Lauryn Luescher

Cal Poly '22

Lauryn is a third year student at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, majoring in Journalism and concentrating in Public Relations and minoring in marketing and ethnic studies. She loves going to the beach, hammocking, writing and exploring San Luis Obispo. This year Lauryn is the Senior Editor for Her Campus Cal Poly and spends her free time writing and editing. Lauryn also works with New Student and Transition Programs at Cal Poly and loves orienting new students to college. After college, Lauryn hopes to work for a PR agency or do PR for a food company.
Hi I'm Lauren! I am the Campus Correspondent at Cal Poly, SLO. I am studying journalism and hope to have a career in TV broadcasting. When I'm not running around campus with a camera interviewing people, you can find me watching makeup tutorials on Youtube. I LOVE anything beauty or skincare related and I'm always looking for new makeup products! Follow me to see makeup looks, sunset pictures in SLO and all my friends! (Oh and I have some funny tweets too!)  Â