news.ycombinator.com• Feb 14, 2025• 1 min read
Ask HN: Finding Mentorship in Development?I've been dabbling in tech and development for over 20 years. I am a self-taught programmer, that eventually completed by BS:CS, that has always studied development books on craftsmanship, data structures, specifics of different languages, and the works.I've had spouts of freelancing here and there on small projects, but my career took me in a different direction with a whole assortment of different job titles: military, avionics, managing contracts, facilities management, stationary engineering, CAD work, project management, and IT services management. I have been in leadership roles on an acting basis as needed, but have never really felt a calling to go down that path.By metric of performance reviews and promotions, I have excelled in all of my positions, mostly in part of my ability to leverage software development and my technical skills as whole. I have always leveraged programming to streamline processes and make my organization more efficient. However, my job titles have never
