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Re: why do we mentor?

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Originally Posted by MechEng83 View Post
I mentor for many reasons:

Little kids want to grow up to be firemen and doctors. FIRST kids want to grow up and be engineers.
Not all of them. I still remember when my daughter was in Kindergarten. After about the second or third week, when I came home from work my wife said "You should ask Jennifer what she did in school today.

Me> "Jennifer, What did you do at school today."

Jen> "Oh, We all got to say what we wanted to be when we grow up."

Me> "And what do you want to be when you grow up."

Jen> "I said I want to be an engineer when I grow up."

Me> "Really?"

Jen> "Yup, I decided, I want to be an engineer.

Me> "And why is that? After all a lot of kids your age don't even know what an engineer is."

Jen> "I just think that it's the greatest job in the whole world and I know that's what I want to do when I grow up"

Me> "Wow Jennifer, you don't know how happy that makes me. You want to grow up and be an engineer just like your dad!"

Jen> "What? No dad! The kind that gets to drive the train!"


Oh well. You can't win them all. Actually both daughters eventually decided on relatively technical non engineering careers. But, I could not be more proud of them even if they had both chosen engineering.
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