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

Date 2014-04-09 13:09 +0200
From Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be>
Subject Re: [OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing?
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On 08-04-14 15:58, alister wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Apr 2014 13:47:12 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> On 2014-04-08, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 5:07 PM, James Brewer <james@brwr.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Basically, I want to be a better engineer. Where can I find someone
>>>> willing to point me in the right direction and what can I offer in
>>>> return?
>>> Right here on this list! And all you have to offer in return is
>>> interesting questions.
>> Actually, I've noticed that the questions usually don't even have to be
>> very good or interesting.  Ask anything.  You'll get genneraly get
>> answers to:
>>
>>  the question you asked
>>
>>  the question you thought you were asking
>>
>>  the question you should have asked
>>
>>  a few other questions only tangentially related to the above
> I would agree with 1 & 4, but 2 & 3 only happen if you are really lucky 
> :-)

No wonder, because when they do happen, chances are someone will complain
about that person not answering the question actually asked.

-- 
Antoon Pardon

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Re: [OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing? alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-04-08 13:58 +0000
  Re: [OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing? Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2014-04-09 13:09 +0200
  Re: [OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing? Tony the Tiger <tony@tiger.invalid> - 2014-04-13 12:48 +0000
    Re: [OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-04-14 00:04 +1000

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