| Your mentor finds you. Mentoring someone is giving. And not having anything in return, at least for years. Or ever. So, for someone to mentor you, you have to be interesting to them. Ask yourself this question, as you are at least somewhere in life- "If I were to mentor someone, what would that person have to do/have?" Now reverse this, and identify qualities in you that you can leverage to find a mentor. Mentoring is a long term thing. So, instead of finding mentor deliberately, get to know a lot of people. Among them, ask some people advice about some specific things. That one advice seeking might turn into two, or they might start giving you more advices, more broader ones, too. Just expose yourself to a lot of interesting people and stay in touch with people you are genuinely interested to know, or can admire. Be an interesting kind of person. I found my first (tech) mentor because he could talk international news with me (I did a lot of debate when I was young), my second one appeared in my life when I was organizing cultural programmes, and charity for disadvantaged kids. I met my last one, who is also a friend in an online study group. Also look for similar backgrounds. I was interested in mentoring someone as he really liked extra curricular learning, and made great web apps. He also, like me, migrated to tech from something else. |