are you a mentor?

[Icey101]

a mate i used to work with got himself a nice sales manager job and has 2 young kids....about once a month he drops in and shouts me lunch off his corp card, he asks questions about how to manage his staff better and look after his kids etc, its fun to give him info on stuff i have been through...i guess i could be his mentor

[hrodbert696]

One thing I realized is that while everyone talks about mentors these days, it's usually the disciple who picks the master and not the other way around. It's not often all that welcome to say "I want to be your mentor" to someone who's not asking for it. Mentoring only happens when someone seeks you out.... which sounds like it's what happened in this case.

I can definitely see this as a professor. Most students show up for class, write their papers and listen to lectures, and go away. You can't make them take you as their mentor no matter what you do. But every so often there's the student who comes to office hours, has all kinds of questions, wants to do independent study, wants you to write references for them for their next program. Those are what make it really worthwhile.

[Ziltoid]

I have the senior mentor position at my college, so technically, yes I am a mentor.