Personal Narrative Analysis

In high school, I mentored several young students in computer science and technical theater. I loved teaching them all that I knew and showing them the way. It made me feel as if I was making a difference and put a smile on their precious faces. I would advise them in personal matters, what jobs to take, specific tasks that they were having trouble completing, and general life advice. I had a very close relationship with these bright young women and stay in contact with them to this day. Although, one day I did stumble upon a problem in my relationship with my mentees. My mentees started to become better than me at what I was teaching them to do! Suddenly, the teacher was becoming the student. They were getting jobs I did not even know existed and I was looked over for assignments I used to get. I …show more content…
At the beginning, I learned to put on a fake smile and work through my feelings. Over time, instead of pretending, I developed genuine pride, without jealousy, in my mentees. I began to understand that the most important thing was keeping a vibrant community of programmers and techies alive at my high school, not personally being the best. As the leader, I had to put aside my personal anxieties and encourage my mentees. I would like to research why humans fell the incredible amount of insecurity when someone they are mentoring becomes better at what they are doing, what it does to the relationship when this happens and ways to repair the relationship or the mindset of the mentor. I want to investigate this phenomenon in corporate and academic settings. I also want to research the “Queen Bee Complex” which is defined by a woman high up in an organization working to push others down. I want to see whether this a product of sexist thinking or bad research, or this really does exist more within females than males. The best primary source for this would definitely be interviewing, but these may be hard to come