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Mentors and Teachers
As you may have noticed, I’m a sometimes-frequent poster on Trizle.com, a neat site for business folk of all kinds to share tips and get inspired by Trizle’s weekly posts on being awesome with your work.
Recently, I’ve been posting (umm, maybe a little like petitioning) for a new feature through Trizle’s site: Mentoring.
Maybe part of me misses the professor/student relationship I had as an undergrad. Maybe another part of me is, well, still a bit young to being a full-time freelance machine. I can’t think of a better way to get advice that fits what I’m doing other than through another freelancer who knows the ropes.
I’ve been blessed in that my Dad is a freelance maverick of his own in the I.T. world, but the work he and I do are worlds apart. He’s SQL server-ing people in the face while I’m designing audio for games. He commutes to work while I telecommute… you get the idea.
That said, I’m really working to connect locally this year. Although I’m still pretty fresh to the area, I hope to stretch my contacts out a bit further. I know a lot of cool people in Polk County, too, so I feel like I’m off to a basic start.
I’m also thinking about ways in which I can teach and share game design. Perhaps I’ll finally be able to develop a curriculum that I’m proud to teach. For now, I’m gathering bits and pieces together in the hope that I can actually be a professor someday.
