question for all mentors

[IndySam]

When stuff is working the way it's supposed to there's nothing much else to do.

[RoboMom]

NEMO has a private forum on cd (and we cannot thank cd enough for this service!)
I have the pleasure of "letting" mentors through the door (and keeping all the spambots out. Who the heck is "Dark Helmet" anyway and why are then spending so much time trying to sign up for NEMO ?)So I am on cd at least once a week to do that task.

I don't keep this page open, but probably do check in at least once a day, scanning the portal for topics of interest.

[Gary Dillard]

I check CD while I'm waiting for ProE to reload everytime it crashes.

So that's about 20 times a day

[gvarndell]

Sorry, I was working.... what was the question?

[Tim Delles]

Gotta love working at a computer... And yes, as we begin to move into the season, one window for CD will be kept open here and at my apartment... You never know when you might see something good on here.

[Mike Schreiber]

As a Kettering student who does co-op it looks somewhat bad to be browsing the internet instead of doing my job. I generally restrict my CD usage to lunch and boring meetings.

[DonRotolo]

I don't keep CD open all day, but I do check in more or less every day, scan "new posts" and some threads I've subscribed to. Drop answers where I can be helpful, keep quiet where I can't. 15-20 minutes per day average.

[Bill_B]

Originally Posted by squirrel

Work? what's that?

Work is what you must do.
Fun is what you like to do.
Most ideal circumstance is when work = fun.

[jspatz1]

No one told me FRC mentors were allowed to have jobs or other obligations.

[Clem1640]

No. My day job is too demanding.

I try to check approximately daily.

But there are a lot of mentors...

[ttakashima]

I am a college student so I leave CD on only during the easy classes or the realy boring classes where ill fall asleep... - I know that is not good .

I also work at the high school I graduated from as the robotics advisor to help our teacher sponsor. When I am at the HS I leave CD, USfirst and VEX forums up all the time.

[Jon Stratis]

Doing software development professionally gives you plenty of free time during the day...


The sad thing is, the comic isn't too far from the truth. Make a small code change, compile, build, deploy, and restart the server... 15 CD-filled minutes later I can finally see if it does what I want!

[Peter Matteson]

I leave CD open on a tab and periodically check in while Teamcenter/NX are loading or I'm stuck on a conference call that I don't really have to do anything for.

[CrazyCarl461]

It's the whole reason I have a second monitor on my laptop at work.

[Gary Dillard]

Originally Posted by CrazyCarl461

It's the whole reason I have a second monitor on my laptop at work.

Hmmmmm... your picture looks like your first monitor is for designing FIRST robot parts. I guess you need a third monitor for work.