[bravetraveler]

Funny, these little moments are why I WFH - they're so necessary yet frequent

The time I can put to work is limited. The flexibility is useful.

I get juniors need to learn, but I also need to do work other than teach. We don't have this 1:1 Jedi pairing nonsense.

There's more of them than there are of me/peers, capitalization is robbery. Either another junior or the whole business loses.

It's something to dial in. Both in terms of means and amount. There is never a perfect prescription. We must all adapt.

There were probably a few billion fewer people in the world when handholding mentorship was common

[Rinzler89]

>I get juniors need to learn

I take it you wee a born senior when you started your career and nobody had to coach you?

[bravetraveler]

I took what I got, which is less than you assume, and didn't demand more. You seem to think I'm arguing against mentorship entirely. I'm not.

I know the value. I didn't get much; I barely even knew my father. I'm going to get distasteful for a moment because of that. You've been warned.

To answer your snide fucking remark: I did in fact succeed without coaching. I wouldn't be so harsh if I hadn't just read you go after someone for a similar attack. Amazing.

Now, back to civility.

There has to be a limit. We don't make seniors to collect them. We have a job to do beyond sustaining the ranks.

Also: it's a subjective title. Who's to say I'm not a junior that snuck in?

Among the pool of seniors there's no consistency in capabilities. It's all arbitrary. Calm down and go back to work.

To close all of this, nobody is owed a promotion or even attention. Selection has to happen. Maybe that's not you this time. Sorry.

While I work from home, I have traveled to teach and attend classes. I get it. I try to use the advantages of both.

It's well established that the way to move up in the industry is by changing jobs. I don't like it but that's how it is. We can team up but I don't like our odds.

[Rinzler89]

Easy mate, take a deep breath. No need to blow your top off over a trivial remark. My observation was not meant to be in bad faith. I'm sorry you took it that way.

[bravetraveler]

We could both learn to take a deep breath, from this. I was fine until you showed up in bad faith. Don't say I took it that way. It was.

[Rinzler89]

Sure, but don't blame your overreaction on others. If someone cuts in front of you in trafic and you get out of the car and beat them up with a a baseball bat in response, it's not an excuse that's gonna hold up in court. Someone's mistake is on them, but your reaction is always on you.

[bravetraveler]

Agreed. I know I'm overreacting. I'm on the internet too much and see this kind of lazy discourse everywhere I look.

It's exhausting and maddening. I literally should touch grass, but that doesn't absolve the world either.

Some of my other posts are even more unhinged. I know I'm slipping. I don't really care.

Still, sorry you had to see it.