Holy crap. Thank you so much for this. It was a light bulb for me. I came here to say how much I liked this article. I don’t have any real nuggets to add. In t

Holy crap. Thank you so much for this. It was a light bulb for me. I came here to say how much I liked this article. I don’t have any real nuggets to add. In the last 10 years, we’ve had 8 young summer interns go through our group. It’s been quite a variety. I’ve helped place two of them in later jobs I became aware of. I have regular contact with them. I enjoy our friendships. One of them does intermittent contract work for us. I liked passing on some of the passion for programming I’ve enjoyed, even if there’s been some raised eyebrows. Many of my similar age cohorts at work have commented that I really seem to enjoy teaching and think I would enjoy that a lot. A couple years ago we hired a slightly experienced (few years out of school, one job under the belt) person to work with us. It did not go well. Me being the overly sentimental “let me overthink this” type, it’s been really debilitating for me. Our final year of attempting to make something work, was particularly painful and hurtful. As an opportunity opened up for this person to do something else in the company opened up, they shared that my office mate (who does more hardware) and I were possibly the worst mentors. That the company (with a high median age) was as a whole terrible at onboarding people. This has really hurt. Until now. Because your comment just clicked for me. For four years, what was driving me nuts was that this person demanding a tutor. And not being a very good student either. Seriously, this comment has made my day. Thank you.