Can anyone tell me about their experience mentoring?

I've mentored many of slutty women in my day on human anatomy.

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Can anyone tell me about their experience mentoring?

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WTF is "experience mentoring"?

Appropriate lol.

Through work I've been both a mentee and a mentor.

I think it's incredibly helpful and both parties can benefit from the relationship.

I meet for lunch with my mentor about once a month to just talk about what's going on at work. Struggles, challenges, accomplishments, goals etc. He is in another part of the organization so he can give me a fresh, objective perspective. He's in upper management so I think I give him insights in to what the front line managers and the "line troops" are dealing with (I'm a supervisor).

My mentee asked me to mentor him after we met in a technical training class. He's a smart kid, just out of college, with a great future in the company. I've learned a lot from him and helped steer him in a positive direction. I've introduced him to leaders within the company and he's building a network.

It's like most things, the more you put in to it, the more you get out of it.

Thinking of volunteer mentoring at my mother's school. It's pretty rough school though.

I'm just worried because my mother is a counselor and she comes home every day talking about how her students are suicidal or running out into the middle of the highway next to the school and I definitly don't want that kind of pressure.

Mentoring is one of the most awarding philanthropic endeavors that a single person can participate in.

The kid that cuts my yard has been coming by 3 or 4 times a week for 3 years to eat and watch tv. His guardian is not providing for him. I have supplied him with lots of food and some clothes and school supplies.

When he would whine about how school mates were treating him, I would give him a long term perspective.

Despite my warnings about what not to do, he went ahead and did those things.

It took 2 years for him to start understanding what I was talking about and how it applied to his life.

It is like raising your own kid except you can send them home when you reach your limits.

You have to define what you expect out of a mentoring relationship. If you expect short term results where you work miracles, then you will be disappointed and do the kid a disservice.

Some kids need a little bit of help and to know that someone cares. Others have to grow older before they start using the knowledge you impart to them.