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Menthoring
I wonder, do you happen to know about any internet menthoring? I mean, I just finished university, I feel like God has given some gifts and skills, and pretty much the heaven is the limit, so I have been searching for any kind of menthoring, like maybe people who have a lot of personal and professional experience and are willing to invest time by menthoring somebody through email who takes it for serious too. Have you ever heard of anything like that?
Just wondering,
Thanks
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I'm not sure I've ever heard of that. The internet is a wonderful resource, and perhaps for some careers, it might work to find an internet mentor, but I'd also think that in certain circumstances, it would be better to have a mentor who can observe you.
In my case, as a teacher, if I were to want a mentor, I'd like somebody who can watch me teach and see what I'm doing in the classroom. It's one thing to have somebody you can go to for advice and to ask questions, but I'm not sure if that's everything required of mentoring.
Certainly, having somebody (internet or not) in your field available to you to ask questions of would be helpful in career planning and goal planning, but that's not exactly the same thing as a mentor. And in computer-related fields or in fields that are more uncommon (and thus, you might not be able to find somebody locally), the internet would be a great place to look for a mentor.
Offhand, I might thing that the best way to find a mentor might be to go to professional organizations and conferences and find people you admire. Maybe talk to them in person, establish the contact, and then maybe you can continue it online.
Myself, I'm a reinvent-the-wheel type of person, and I rarely ask anybody for advice and haven't looked for a mentor, so take this with a grain of salt.
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