Do you do any mentoring outside of work? If so, how did you get started?
Ask HN: Do you do any mentoring outside of work?
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#2I mentor my wife who recently started working professionally as an iOS Software Engineer. When I lived in the city, I would attend a peer lab for iOS Developers where you can mentor developers just getting started in the field. This is where I got started and highly recommend that route.
Re: Ask HN: Do you do any mentoring outside of work?
#3I'd encourage you to look for a local chapter of https://girlswhocode.com/, see if there are after school programming clubs in your city (or start one), or sign up with https://hackhands.com/ and get paid to mentor.
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#4Yes, I do. I think sometimes people just want someone to bounce ideas off. For me its primarily helping people to think logically about their problems, but there's also some help given from the years of experience I have. I'm not super-successful, but I've done 'ok' and I'm happy. The feedback from those I've helped has been positive and it feels good to help others. I think best way to get started is to just speak to people and see what problems they have and see if your knowledge can be helpful. Use your own network first - plus there's a fairly big network on here! :)
Re: Ask HN: Do you do any mentoring outside of work?
#5I'd encourage you to look for a local chapter of https://girlswhocode.com/ , see if there are after school programming clubs in your city (or start one), or sign up with https://hackhands.com/ and get paid to mentor.
I'd encourage not contributing to "girlswhocode", I believe gender-segregated services do nothing but inflame any divide that exists between them as it is.
I believe integration is needed, not separation.
Hackhands looks decent though
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#6I mentor a developer community which i nurtured from scratch in the conflict ridden valley of Kashmir. My mantra of life is "grow and let others grow with you."
If you want to pitch in , just drop me an email.
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#7No, I don't.
Re: Ask HN: Do you do any mentoring outside of work?
#8I hope this is not frowned upon, but I'll hijack this thread to say:
I'd love to have a mentor.
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#10I mentor a young guy who came to Denmark as a refugee a few years ago, we met through the mentor program at the Danish Refugee Council.
After two years of courses in math, physics, English, biology and Danish he finally got accepted into university and has his first day today studying robotics.
Signed up to help out at http://www.hackyourfuture.net/ as well, seems like an amazing project.