Ask HN: Where to find a mentor in my city (or any)?
I live in Los Angeles and would love to meet someone who I could get advice/motivation from in moving forward career wise. I've been in this business two and a half years but seem to be the only one at my company that gets excited like a kid at learning new programming technologies/concepts. The meetups in my neighborhood that I've attended tend to attract very new programmers so not a lot of learning there (although i really enjoy helping them out). Other than "co-workers" and "meetups" I'm not sure of the best place to search. Thanks!
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May I recommend to you UUASC, the Unix Users Association of Southern California, check us out at http://www.uuasc.org/ We've got a great mailing list, with programmers, sys admins, security types, newbies, greybeards, and really a lot of variety.
There are two chapters, LA and Orange County, and it's been around for a over a decade, maybe two. Really great group, I've learned a lot from the mailing list and the monthly meetings.
I'm based in Burbank myself if you'd like to meetup for lunch sometime.
Not sure it will help, but the local universities/colleges that have good programming departments might have faculty who could steer you in the right direction?