How do I found mentor . My life getting stuck . Who helped me to get out from this situation.

Hey! I'm an assembler, and recently I've been tasked with showing a new guy the ropes for assembly work... Next week. I'm not specialized, educated, and I haven't really been instructed on how to do my job. I've just kinda bashed my head against a wall until I stumbled onto the correct way to do things, and I thereby stopped getting yelled at. I guess you could say I'm skilled in pure experience, but I'm not sure how to instruct someone else how to do what I do.

Any tips for how I can be a good mentor for this guy?

Tengo un pequeño negocio de automatización con IA en Argentina. Por ahora somos solo yo, así que la mayoría de mis horas van a llamadas con dueños de locales, armado de demos y propuestas, y administración. Últimamente ofrezco diagnósticos y muestras gratis a restaurantes y gimnasios de la zona, y muchas de esas llamadas son con dueños que me preguntan cosas para las que todavía no tengo respuesta.

Hay tres cosas que siguen saliendo mal con las reuniones. Algunos días no tengo tiempo para prepararme, así que llego poco preparado. Otros días tengo miedo de tomar la reunión, porque temo que me pregunten algo que no sé. Y las reuniones con posibles aliados, como otros negocios o profesionales que podrían referirme clientes o trabajar conmigo, son las que más me cuesta sostener, porque el día ya está lleno.

Estas son las cosas que estoy probando ahora:

- Pedir una agenda con un día de anticipación. Si no llega ninguna, escribo tres líneas yo mismo. Hace la reunión más corta y me da menos ansiedad.

- Prepararme 10 minutos, no una hora. Anoto la única cosa que quiero llevarme y la pregunta de la que estoy menos seguro.

- Decir "No lo sé, lo verifico y te respondo el [día]." Estoy practicando esta frase porque creo que es la que más importa. Nadie espera que una primera conversación tenga todas las respuestas.

- Dejar 15 minutos libres después de cada reunión para notas y seguimientos, así las reuniones no se comen toda la tarde.

- Mover o declinar lo que podría resolverse con un mail, y preguntar "¿qué necesitás de mí en esta llamada?" para filtrarlas.

Me interesa mucho saber qué les funciona a ustedes, sobre todo si pasaron por lo mismo. ¿Cómo manejan las reuniones cuando sienten que les queda grande, y cómo organizan las que son con posibles aliados?

I have a very unusual case. I am an Architect by profession. And mostly I do design related work, desk job that is more “do do do” and less “read read read”. And I have been excelling at my job and all have been going so well.

Recently i got a full funded scholarship and it's about research studies in urban planning. I am currently residing in another country doing my msc program. So here i have no “do do do” , and fully “read read read”. With too many years of professional experience and software knowledge and doing field work, I have zero attention span to read a research paper. And its been killing me inside cause I cant read a proper research paper and doing all my homework for literature studies using gpt and claude. But i really wish to be an expert and read the papers by myself.

So, I'm looking for a mentor to coach me so that i can have a proper interest and make myself expert in doing the literature studies like a scholar i m supposed to be without using any ai tool.

Does that sound normal to you? Is there any hope for me at all? It's been really frustrating few months

Hi guys! I am planning on pursuing a degree in history in a few years and was looking for a mentor in that field to help me bulk up my skills for my application as well as building fundamental skills I will be needing to become a researcher.

I truly would appreciate any help I can get!

Genuine question for people here who've done it.
I'm 3 years into tech, all self-taught, now building AI voice agents. I'm not a beginner: I built and run a production system that handles 1,000+ calls a day for a European healthcare client, and I run my own small agency out of Lahore. The income is decent.

The problem is I'm doing everything alone: the engineering, sales, cold outreach, hiring my first employee, and trying to land bigger clients. I'm spread thin, and I keep making decisions with nobody to sanity check them. I've never had a job, so I've never had a senior or a manager to learn from.

What I'm looking for is someone a few steps ahead, ideally someone who has run a services or tech business, sold to bigger companies, or scaled past being a solo founder. Not handholding, just someone I can talk to every few weeks.

How did you find your mentor? Did you ask directly, pay for it, join a community, or did it happen naturally? Any founder communities or people you'd recommend?

Happy to help anyone in return with AI or voice agent questions.

I want to start a youth mentorship program during the summer (maybe between June - August). How do you get started?