Great and valuable read! Is that from your blog or did you write a book? Would love to see more!
Now here is where that last part is really funny in my situation: most everyone of my peers could easily be my mom or dad, they are all way older than me, got family and kids, so there are no after work activities at all, there is no typical coffee room or balcony for smokers where you would "naturally" meet and talk to people, we do deal with different departments as our customers but 95% of them are in that "way older" group too.
Don't get me wrong, I am not one of those young whippersnappers ragging on "old people"; far from it, I am well approaching my 30s faster than I shall like and there are "older than me" people who can really open your eyes with some fascinating stories or experiences! I just find them here all unnaturally passionless, whining and downright boring somehow... not a lot of professional expertise where you could actually LEARN something. More times than not, it is me (from the outside) giving them an idea or suggestion based on technical knowledge. And I have just been here for maybe 3 or 4 years now... most everyone else has been here 10-20+ years.
And I'm the "expert" in my small little local kingdom so, sadly, what I say just goes and there really honestly is practically no one I could get mentoring from, even I don't consider myself that "good" at all, I still am the go-to guy and have always been that everywhere I worked at.
I know my weakness, I know I don't really excel and come up with incredibly creative, sweet solutions.. I guess I am just good enough to know how bad I am and still manage to do well enough.