> In contrast, people I’ve met in the working world tend to have comparatively > little time and interest for teaching or mentorship. Apart from the many > in

> In contrast, people I’ve met in the working world tend to have comparatively > little time and interest for teaching or mentorship. Apart from the many > individual coworkers and bosses that expect you to show up and figure things > out with minimal direction, there is a more general atmosphere of “we’re > paying you” that is less conducive to asking questions relative to the > classroom or office hours. This feels to be a weak argument against on the job training. I'd go so far as to say it is gross negligence in how little folks realize a lot of doing your job is a performance and best taught to someone. We can easily see this in many entry level jobs. Starting any fast food job, you would expect someone to train you on how to prepare the food and package it for delivery. Sadly, I can't think of many times after that that I was given training. Yes, many on call rotations would have a shadowing period, but often that was less training and more venting from whoever you were shadowing. Why do we in the software industry think that teaching and learning is so far removed from the jobs that we have? I've been a skeptic of "mentorship" things where the idea seems to be "hope that something comes out of it," but at least there is hope in those ideas. The alternative seems to be to hope that the current styles and ideas will work. With the goal of finding a style and idea that you can hire for and then push all responsibility onto the folks walking in the door that day.