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My experience of 'mentoring' like this has been not requests for mentoring, but 'solve my problem please, and do it for free'. I was thinking a 'solution' to t
by zwischenzug 9y ago
My experience of 'mentoring' like this has been not requests for mentoring, but 'solve my problem please, and do it for free'.
I was thinking a 'solution' to this would be mutual mentoring: exchange your expertise in X with another's expertise in Y.
- j_s 9y agoThere are sites that offer experts for hire in a mercenary-like fashion, but most suffer from the network effect requiring both sides of the transaction to exist in large enough numbers. Global competition being want it is, even fiverr can work for something like this.
- fiatjaf 9y agoIf you go to codementor.io you'll find exactly that. Apparently people do pay, but they don't want a mentor at all (also, the sheer majority of people who request a mentor end up not hiring any -- or even replying to their messages). The whole thing is a mess.