Showing posts with label mentorship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mentorship. Show all posts

Monday, December 17, 2007

To Mentor Or Not To Mentor

I am on several forums, groups and social networks online and offline, which might mean I have a slight addiction to passive socialising. In any case, someone found me through a specialised industry online community I am on and seemed really keen to mentor me, even though I haven't actually asked for any help there. She's geographically close enough that we could meet up and I'm certainly quite open to meeting up and making a new friend. God knows we could all do with more friends.

While I really appreciate her unsolicited advice, which may come in useful in the future, it's starting to grate on me since she feels compelled to give me advice, deemed irrelevant to my current situation, every time she talks to me.

It's rare to find someone who's willing to expend time and energy to mentor another and I try to appreciative when someone like that comes by. It's not doing it for me now though since I'm looking to break into another field, which is not her specialty.