Then there are those who have been promoted up beyond their competency (Peter Principle), or are no longer interested in the job or training, have not been coached or mentored to do the new job effectively and now they have a mortgage, two kids, credit card debt and can't afford to make a switch, especially in a poor job market.
But she correctly surmises that he's innocent, and she does help cure him, even if she has to enlist the help of her patriarchal Freud-like male mentor to do it.
There is much you can do to take charge of your own professional life; don't expect your chair or mentor to do all the work for you.
What is a mentor to do? Stand up to micro-aggressors, as if you're standing up to a bully.
Get a friend, parent or mentor to do this with you.
The best things for a "mentor" to do in these situations are to listen and show the teen that you (the mentor) can be trusted with the information that is shared.
Meanwhile, though, there is mentoring to be done, in a manner that suggests a serviceable variation on the "Top Gun"/"Officer and a Gentleman" model, most of it taking place in a swimming pool.
(F) The faculty head explained that UREs presented interpersonal challenges for her, for example, how she could best gauge postgraduates' interest in mentoring and abilities to do so: "I want to make sure that they want to [mentor undergraduates] … I'm not always sure if they're just doing it to make me happy, or if they're really genuinely wanting to do it".
But Ms. Grayson, like her mentor, wanted to do more than just curate, and the Greene Street space proved too small for much else.
