From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 25 21:04:58 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA05681 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 21:04:58 -0700 Received: from bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au (bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au [130.102.2.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id VAA05675 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 21:04:51 -0700 Received: from wcs.uq.edu.au (actually juno.wcs.uq.edu.au) by bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au with SMTP (PP); Wed, 26 Apr 1995 14:04:11 +1000 Received: by wcs.uq.edu.au (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA19404; Wed, 26 Apr 95 14:03:50 EST From: Gary Roberts Message-Id: <9504260403.AA19404@wcs.uq.edu.au> Subject: Re: The Mentors' Club (was Re: Gating hackers ... ) To: phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 14:03:49 +1000 (EST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504260347.UAA10515@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Apr 25, 95 08:47:59 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1184 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > > if the newbie is too easily bounced on to a new mentor. Wouldn't it be > > better for the mentor to ask (say on the mentors list) and see if anyone > > can give him a quick pointer to the answer. That way the newbie retains > > his one to one relationship, *and* his confidence in his mentor. Maybe > And the mentor might learn something too :-) Yes, exactly!!! For the last 15 years my daytime job (which I love) has involved teaching others about a subject where the student undoubtedly knows more about some aspects of it than the Instructor. Initially I was scared shitless and felt like a complete fraud. I'm still enjoying my job and I've learnt a *hell* of a lot by having to stay one step ahead of the students. You really do learn fast by being thrown in the deep end and its very good for your self-esteem when you do survive it all. Forcing yourself to be a mentor and sticking with your newbie *will* be good for you. Trust me ... :->. Thanks for your support, Poul. Cheers, -- Gary Roberts (gary@wcs.uq.edu.au) (Ph +617 844 0400 Fax +617 844 0444) 4th Floor, South Bank House, 234 Grey St, South Bank QLD 4101 Australia.