[BC] Mentoring

[Kent Winrich]

Laryy,

You have some good ideas here.  If I may pile on.......

When a kid asks a question.... heck it doesnt even have to be a 
kid.... the answer needs to be in language that they understand, and 
without "attitude" (like you are smarter than they are).

When I first got into engineering, I did not have "mentors" to speak 
of.  Most people would just have the expectation that I "should know" 
everything.  I still see that attitude in many ways today.

If we are to bring in "fresh blood" then talking down to them or 
critisizing them is no way of promoting this business and continuing 
QUALITY engineering.

This is a great business!  I LOVE what I do!  Degrading this business 
does us no good.  To say that we can make better money in other areas 
of business may be true, but one thing I have learned is to do what 
you love to do.  When you love what you do, you do your work with 
passion.  THAT is what will make a person successful.  When you have 
that passion, people will see that and want to work with 
you.  Employers will want you on their team, and others will want to 
learn from you.

On 12/2/06, Larry Bloomfield 
<<mailto:Larry at tech-notes.tv>Larry at tech-notes.tv> wrote:
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Jim Tonne put it quite well: "...one of the responsibilities of kn 
owning all about a subject (like some of us old geezers) is that when 
a kid asks a question about it you have to be helpful and give a 
straight answer.  Someday, if'n the creek don't rise, that kid will 
pass that knowledge on to another kid."
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