Re:Netflix's “Love Is Blind” Wants Unpaid Photographer for F...
by cbozeman on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @04:02PM
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> I'm supposed to be training the next generation of $my_profession, and if they're not getting in the way, I'm not letting them do enough to learn.
I had intended to say this myself.
Computer programmers rarely train themselves. Very few of anything train themselves. Autodidacts who can become masters of <insert field here> are extremely rare, and even those that have that capability can still pick up a lot of information from someone with decades of experience.
Our species seems to learn best through being taught by those with more experience than us.
I've only had interns at one job, and I had a similar complaint.
My boss told me that's exactly what's supposed to happen. He explained that they're not free labor. I'm supposed to be training the next generation of $my_profession, and if they're not getting in the way, I'm not letting them do enough to learn.
I guess in some ways he was right. Many of the most valuable lessons I've learned at work have come through mistakes I've made. And probably a bunch when I was an intern all those years ago.