) and then we would meet up like once a week and discuss various things such as work, things stressing me out, worries etc. I found it to be a great help to talk to them and unload my problems as I often bottle up my emotions until I'm at exploding point which is not healthy at all.Some mentors were good, some mentors were just plain assholes and some were just crazy. Currently, over the past 7 years, I've had 23 mentors including my current two which is just awful. My friend, James calls me a mentor collector which just makes me laughs because it is so true. What kind of jerk goes through that many mentors in that period of time!
My current mentors, I won't use their real names but anyway, John my latest mentor is honestly probably the best mentor I have ever had. He is supportive, he helps me out an awful lot, he is just a real genuine, friendly guy and we got on really well. I never have one complaint against him. My other mentor though Simon is giving me really trouble.
Simon was my first mentor at college after leaving the hellhole. My first mentor, Jean, she was really nice but I had to get rid of her. She was way too positive, I don't mind positive people but I hate ones that try and shove it down your throat. Anyway, me and Simon got on really well in the beginning. He was really good and he rarely missed a meeting. He's an extremely busy guy as he is the head of landbased. Anyway, all was fine until of course, I need to replaced Jean. I like to have two mentors at one time. Anyway, we went throught all the tutors together and decided that John would be the best candiate for being my next mentor so I hired him (not literally but it makes it easy to explain). Suddenly though Simon really went downhill, he missed meetings, he blatantly ignored me at times when passing etc. Anyway, I went to my personal tutor about it and it got sorted out and I gave him a second chance and basically he gone downhill again, two weeks in a row now I have been waiting outside his office at our schedule meeting time for like a half a hour just to be told he is not avaliable. Not actually what I want to hear after waiting half a hour freezing my ass off in the cold!
The busy excuse only works so often and what annoys me the most is he doesn't even apologize for missing them. He just makes no effort whatsoever. And I hate talking about him like this, it's so bitching and I feel like I'm being extremely harsh and not looking at everything. I build up relationships with these people and I care about what happens to them but at the end of the day, there is only so much I can take. I gave him a second chance and he basically flung it back at me.
