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Regarding Dennis Rogers, the former mentor of Jason Brody, how much has your opinions had changed about him at the end of Far Cry 3? : farcry
Main Post: Regarding Dennis Rogers, the former mentor of Jason Brody, how much has your opinions had changed about him at the end of Far Cry 3? : farcry
Anyone have success with a mentor?
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I have had mentors where I’ve set up weekly meetings. The conversations in the weekly meetings were always awkward and unhelpful. I would talk about things going on and problems I was facing but their solution ideas were not on target. They were a sounding board to ask questions but that was maybe 3-5 times in my whole career, which they didn’t need to be mentors to answer.
For those that have had success being mentored, what do you do to get insights from them? What do you talk about?
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Personally I’ve been lucky to have a few mentors in my life and they’ve all been keenly interested in helping me grow as a professional. I would be asking questions on how to get to the next level, how to navigate interpersonal issues with other stakeholders, and how to influence and lead others over whom I don’t have direct authority.
I recommend you skip any operational or day to day talk and ask deeper questions about your life and career, or some of the harder challenges to solve that rely on so called soft skills that aren’t learned easily on the job, but acquired through years of experience.
how did you find a mentor in life?
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I looked around and couldn't find a mentor in college, and now that I'm in the beginning of my career, I still cant find a mentor. I feel like I'm the only one mentoring people, and everyone else turns around and pulls up the ladder.
It's really fucking frustrating tbh
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Mentor?
Men are lucky if they can ask for advice from a few friends with good heads on their shoulders.
Mentors, what makes a mentee worth your time?
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Mentors of this sub, what makes a mentee worth your time? What qualities, actions, or attitudes make you think, "This person is someone I want to invest in?
Besides feeling good, what's the real payoff for you in mentoring someone? What kind of value do you expect in exchange?
In your experience, what's the biggest roadblock people face when trying to find a mentor and how can they overcome it?
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Show that you invest and commit more in yourself than I do. Don't expect me to solve your problems, just give guidance and intros but you have to the work. Show that you've already done something on your own, built a skillset, built relevant experience etc. basically all that you could easily done yourself. Mentors are great if you hit a wall, or are ready to grow but not if you can't even do the most basic things on your own.
Most just want to be rich without the work and sidestep the necessary tedious steps. No interest in those.
Do you really need a mentor or someone to guide you to succeed in life?
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I have been puzzling over this for a few days like do you really need some kind of mentor or someone that knows and gone through your journey to become successful in it or at least make it easier?
Like for example Judit Polgar's father extensively created an environment so that she could become a chess grandmaster. Most scientist(atleast modern ones) have people of family that were scientists or a teacher under which they studied a lot. All the Olympians or people at high positions have some kind of coach or mentor or have better childhood upbringing.
I understand that mentors are needed as no-one can understand dynamics of certain field from the get go. And I also realise that certain commitment is required to pique mentors attention to work on you and just having them won't do anything. But I am not able to find anyone to correctly guide me after searching for a long time.
And I am kind of using it as an excuse of why I won't succeed. Its cause I have no-one to guide me. I always say look at those toppers they had caring parents or older siblings that care about their academics or better teachers. And not focusing on my lack of effort or planning. Pls help me not use it as an excuse, like give me examples or explanation of why I am wrong.
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Yes.... I would trade some of my youth for knowledge.
And looking back in life, some of the worst decisions/ missed opportunities were because I didn’t the knowledge or a mentor figure to guide me.
Do you all typically have mentors in your career or workplaces?
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One of the seniors in my department asked me if I had a mentor. Why was I doing all this. Who told me about the goal that I’m trying to reach. I told him no I’m my own mentor. I just did research and found out ways to help me grow. My goal is to grow I don’t like feeling stagnated. So I will search and search until I find something to make me stretch. He then told me wow so no one even told you about this you just figured it out on your own? That’s impressive.
I awkwardly laughed it off. How does one even get a mentor 😅 I do feel like if I had one I would be way further in life. Like my goal after my much needed vacation from work is to keep my cellphone in the car during the week and focus on my career. My phone is a huge distraction and it hinders me from my success.
I guess I’m doing things right so far to be asked if I had a mentor. I wouldn’t mind getting one though.
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I've really benefitted from having a mentor who can give me honest feedback and career advice. Usually the best mentors are people that you click with naturally. One was a woman I worked with on a project (and had a professional lady crush on her because she was so good at what she did), one was a former boss, and one was a colleague who had been my guide when I first started with the company.
These mentorships all just started with conversation, sort of like when you first start dating. We agreed to meet for lunch, talked, really enjoyed the talks, and kept them going, either regularly scheduled or unscheduled. It felt easy because I already knew and liked all of them. I've changed companies and am still in touch with them, although not as regularly. Former Boss mentor gave some a pep talk recently when I called him about a potential growth opportunity I was struggling with--the kind of talk that you only get from someone who knows you well and is thinking of your best interest.
I'm a mentor now since I'm a bit more senior, and I love talking with my mentees. I get as much from them as I get from my mentors--their perspectives and their enthusiasm are refreshing, and I love to see them grow in their own careers.
Successful people of Reddit. Who was your mentor?
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This could mean a real person who guided you, a role mode or an author of a book. But who provided you with the framework?
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Honestly no specific person. Lots of advice in strange places and a lot of reading and researching. If I didn’t understand something or if something wasn’t going well, I made it a mission to learn!
How to be a good mentor?
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My company will have some juniors joining us soon and part of my responsibilities is to mentor their career progression and personal development. I recall my own experience as a junior, every month I'd sit with my senior and go through my PDP (personal development plan) where we'd focus on different things to learn, starting off with basics such as the company software, design patterns, programming techniques, entity framework, and so on.
I feel like I had a good mentor and I learnt a lot. How can I be an even better mentor and what kind of technologies/skills would you recommend juniors coming fresh out a CS degree learn? I want to strike a good balance between hard and soft skills, as well as skills relevant to the company (we are a Microsoft stack), and build on what they know. Any tips?
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Do your best to be approachable. Encourage questions. I think that's like 80% of it. Sometimes it can be annoying to have someone "bugging" you a lot, you should do your best to put away that annoyance factor. If you have to, reply and say "let me get back to you in 15 minutes" and make sure to follow up if you can't stop what you're doing. If you blow them off or not using an encouraging tone eventually they'll stop asking.
Try to keep your interactions in real time, screen shares are really great if you're all WFH. As people become more experienced sometimes just a chat/slack is enough.
You can look for opportunities to write interfaces and let juniors implement them. Sometimes getting interfaces that will be the cohesion for your app is less obvious to less experienced. Once they have something written, walk through tests and suggest other tests. Sometimes giving some test method names (Given_When_Then_) and let them implement. Don't be afraid to write some stubs, commit to their branch. You can ween this off over time of course, and move to code review process for that as they catch on.
Work one-on-one in real time on code reviews. You can mark up a PR, then get on a call/zoom or in person to walk through how to correct issues, and talk through the "why" of the change. More experienced folks probably don't need this, but it can still be good to share ideas back and forth.
Give articles to read on subjects, maybe find a good MSDN link or a technical doc or to help point them in the right direction when handing off a task. You can also try to help them work on their googling/stackoverflow search skills as well.