I've never been explicitly mentored but I've been lucky to work places where there have been colleagues with things to learn from by example and inference. Ther

I've never been explicitly mentored but I've been lucky to work places where there have been colleagues with things to learn from by example and inference. There does not need to be an explicit mentor relationship for knowledge to spread if work is done in teams and culture of open communication is cherished (at least on the team level).