{"id":446,"date":"2007-12-07T13:07:37","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T18:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devinreams.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/07\/sleeping-at-work-and-mentors\/"},"modified":"2007-12-07T13:07:37","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T18:07:37","slug":"sleeping-at-work-and-mentors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=446","title":{"rendered":"Sleeping at work and mentors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;not with mentors, <em>and<\/em> mentors. My company matches you up with a mentor (typically a level or two above you) and you meet with them a few times a year to discuss your career, reviews, future, and so on. This is awesome because we&#8217;re forced to meet and do the things that often get overlooked.<\/p>\n<p><em>Aside: my second engagement since starting work was out in California. On the first day we meet with the client after lunch in a dark room with a PowerPoint presentation on all kinds of stuff I really have no familiarity with. I started doing that head nod, eyelids droop thing. My supervisor across the table from me noticed. Yup, you know that&#8217;s going in the review!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So, as I sit here at lunch with my mentor and I tell him this story he stops and says &#8220;haha! I&#8217;ve got a better story than that&#8230;&#8221; and proceeds to tell me about how he, too, once started to doze while talking with a client. Score.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what mentors are for. When we see that review come up we can just chalk it up to &#8220;first time&#8221; and be done with it. No more stress!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;not with mentors, and mentors. My company matches you up with a mentor (typically a level or two above you) and you meet with them a few times a year to discuss your career, reviews, future, and so on. This is awesome because we&#8217;re forced to meet and do the things that often get overlooked. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","tag-old"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}