Blog 10 - Interview 2 Reflection

1. Please explain how you are spending your mentorship time (Is it at a workplace or somewhere else?  Are you shadowing?  Are you able to do tasks that are meaningfully related to the topic?  If so, what?  Are there other people who are experts in the location?  Etc...)

• During my mentorship hours, my mentor and I usually meet at a Starbucks for about 2 hours per session and go over work that he has worked on since the last time we met. He shows me how to do specific things and allows me to work on them with him. As of now, I haven't really done much shadowing only because Disney didn't grant his request to bring me in to shadow his work. once he receives more freelance work, we plan to collaborate more and meet up with clients instead of a good old meet at Starbucks. He has assigned me individual tasks like creating logos which is a section a big project he has planned for me which might be my second independent component.

2.  How did you find your mentor?  How did you convince this person to help you?   

• I found my mentor through a friend of mine; her grandma's co-workers boyfriend (my mentor.) I sent him out an email to see what he worked as and if was willing to guide me under his wing for my senior project and he immediately agreed and was happy to be apart of something like this.

3. How would you rate your comfort level with your mentor at this point in your relationship?  How does this relate to the time you've spent so far at mentorship/with this person?

• On a scale of 1-10, I would say our comfort level is at a 6. Since we haven't really spent much time together, it's hard to feel like there is an actual bond forming. We can keep conversations going and work comfortably on what were doing but that's about it. I still don't feel 100% when I text him to plan our next session but I feel it's just a matter of time until everything feels completely comfortable. 

4. What went well in this interview?  Why do you think so?  What do you still need to improve?  How do you know?  How will you go about it?

• I feel like this interview went a lot differently than other interviews tend to go. He gave me a lot of insight on how it is he got to where he is which I really enjoyed. This interview also felt a lot more natural to me than the last time. I feel like I still need to improve on keeping an open discussion going. I know this because after he answered a question, it was really hard for me to respond back to what he said. What I plan to do in the future is ask questions that I could also relate to so I can talk about it after my interviewee answers just so it the mood is a lot more comfortable instead of tense.