Mentors

[EGK]

I have to say I am one that asks questions and have learn from quite a few. My mentoring was more ask the questions of good Dogmen they know you know the answer to and take from their experience. Just cause I was TOLD the answer before wasn't satisfying. I want to know why I'm doing something, when does this apply, what should I look for, how do I apply it, and where can I research the info you gave me. One thing I can say a good mentor will make you self sufficient. I'm thankful to some good and not so good characters for sharing their experiences with me. More then anything mentor and protégé have to be dedicated and understand without direction anything can be expected. You want someone mentoring you that has been there and can guide you the direction your passion takes you. It can be stressful as is and the times I don't enjoy and how I bounce back as someone still learning reflect the most of my character as a dog man to me. Steely you gave up a lot and with that said you are in a better position than most started with. Frosty I got to give it to you you have pushed me myself plenty of times to think for years and still pushing me to get better. Sometimes the game itself and just going get the experience is your best mentor when no one is there to be hands on. My will to be better and to honestly look over my yard and say I honestly built this barnone is what drives me. You have to be dedicated and driven to some degree to be mentored by anybody. No use mentoring someone who's never going to use it. Mentors get discouraged too cause they get so many hang around till I get in and get a dog to peddle types that they shut out plenty. It all depend on both individuals overall. As another good dog man told me it takes a certain type of person to be a dog man. Not many have it. The heart or drive to simply do what it takes let alone be game themselves for the long haul.

[Millerman]

I have to say I am one that asks questions and have learn from quite a few. My mentoring was more ask the questions of good Dogmen they know you know the answer to and take from there experience. Just cause I was TOLD the answer before wasn't satisfying. I want to know why I'm doing something, when does this apply, what should I look for, how do I apply it, and where can I research the info you gave me. One thing I can say a good mentor will make you self sufficient. I'm thankful to some good and not so good characters for sharing their experiences with me. More then anything mentor and protégé have to be dedicated and understand without direction anything can be expected. You want someone mentoring you that has been there and can guide you the direction your passion takes you. It can be stressful as is and the times I don't enjoy and how I bounce back as someone still learning reflect the most of my character as a dog man to me. Steely you gave up a lot and with that said you are in a better position than most started with. Frosty I got to give it to you you have pushed me myself plenty of times to think for years and still pushing me to get better. Sometimes the game itself and just going get the experience is your best mentor when no one is there to be hands on. My will to be better and to honestly look over my yard and say I honestly built this barnone is what drives me. You have to be dedicated and driven to some degree to be mentored by anybody. No use mentoring someone who's never going to use it. Mentors get discouraged too cause they get so many hang around till I get in and get a dog to peddle types that they shut out plenty. It all depend on both individuals overall. As another good dog man told me it takes a certain type of person to be a dog man. Not many have it. The heart or drive to simply do what it takes let alone be game themselves for the long haul.

You are a 100% right by saying that it takes two to make the mentorship work. I personal do believe that the lack of mentorship has us in the state of turmoil that we are in. More now than ever do we need our veterans to lead us down the right path.

I am in my mid thirties and some of the stuff I hear and see really makes me feel like I came from a different time zone but I am not to much older than some of the goobers. One of the biggest problems is that the last couple generations of dogman can not handle constructive criticism so with that being said you have Tom, Dick and Harry thinking that they don't need any help and can do it all on there own and change the dog world as we know it and that is hurting us more than anything else.

So do I blame the older guys for not really wanting to help the young guns who don't really want to help themselves no, but we need are vets to stand strong and keep trying to past the torch to the ones who will listen. I was blessed to have two mentors that both had twenty years on me and boy did I ever get a good tong lashing for doing stupid stuff but they would give me the shirt off their back if it would help me to be a better dogman and that what's mentoring is all about helping someone to better themselves.