Mentoring Systems Within the Community

[Elfy]

On 12/12/14 22:36, Walter Lapchynski wrote:
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> Another question related to this: does it NEED to benefit you? Is the
> building up of people not benefit enough? I mean this is what support
> folks do all the time.
Support is a bit different - you go into that *knowing* that it's a one 
way deal, you just hope that eventually whoever it is you're helping one 
day pays that forward.

Mentoring is more intensive - so yes, I'd say that you do need to gain 
some benefit from it. I'm lucky in that with the vast majority of people 
I've mentored in the past it worked out that way.

The few were it didn't are unfortunately the ones that come immediately 
to mind when I think about doing so again are the ones that caused the 
pain.
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