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Re: Mentors: How does your company support you?

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My work is very generous. They let me use my vacation to attend events if I can get those dates. They support my efforts to mentor the team as long as it is on my own time.

I am able to each year to choose to come to work at 4:30 AM and get off at 12:30 PM. This allows afternoons and nights for volunteering. The problem is that at times during build I have health problems related to sleep deprivation. Only 11 days until I can start catching up.
X2

-I get up for work at 5am, finish at 3:00,
-Head to the school from 3:30-6:00,
-Get a bite to eat at the healthiest fast food place I can find,
-Help out at another sponsor's tool and die shop from 6:30-10pm+.

On weekends, I finish the weekly cycle early at 9:00, then:

-Drive from London Ontario to Toronto Ontario (2 hours)
-Spend the night at my parents house, where I get to sleep in until 7am and get a home-cooked meal!
-Pick up an old highschool robotics buddy of mine and we drive from Toronto Ontario to Stayner Ontario (another 2 hours north) where we help another team work at their sponsor's shop until about 4am in the morning.
-Resume work at about 10am.
-Leave at 7pm (this often gets pushed back to 9pm) and drive 2 hours to Toronto where I drop my friend off.
-Depart for London at 9:30pm.
-Arrive in London for 11:30pm if I don't have to stop to rest.

-- resume weekly cycle

My coffee budget is out of sight...
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Mech.Eng.+Mgt University of Ontario 2009
B.Ed OCT Trent University 2015
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