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

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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

#69863 — Re: [OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing?

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 
:-)



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You can't fall off the floor.

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#69943

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.

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Antoon Pardon

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#70194

On Tue, 08 Apr 2014 13:58:24 +0000, alister wrote:

> You can't fall off the floor.

Yes, if the floor it two stories up, and the walls suddenly disappears, 
and there's an earthquake.

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#70197

On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 10:48 PM, Tony the Tiger <tony@tiger.invalid> wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Apr 2014 13:58:24 +0000, alister wrote:
>
>> You can't fall off the floor.
>
> Yes, if the floor it two stories up, and the walls suddenly disappears,
> and there's an earthquake.

That makes me so angry, I think I'll smash that wall down!

*SFX: boom, wall crumbles*

I think I'll take out this floor, too!

*SFX: have a guess*

What a depressingly stupid machine.

ChrisA

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