[OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing?

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> Ditto, but make it 65 years in electronics for me.
>
>> -People make you feel like an idiot when you ask a question and they
>> intimidate you so you don't come back and ask more.
>
> That generally only happens a couple times, I am good at making them eat
> their words.

So you play the curmudgeon. That's a perfectly viable role... for
someone who's been doing stuff for 65 years. For someone straight out
of school, not so much. Even for someone with a few years' experience,
trying to bite back like that is very risky.

>> -People are super patient and helpful and they answer all your
>> questions and go beyond the call of duty to help you.
>
> A utopia very few will ever find.

In corporate, yes, it's rare. But it's a lot less rare in open source
projects. I could go into my theories as to why, but it'd make for a
long post.

ChrisA