Where do you turn for mentorship if your workplace is toxic and you don’t have an obvious former colleague to turn to? Trying to help my friend navigate their career next steps but realize they don’t have a mentor, that’s something that’s been incredibly valuable for my career development. Where does an early 30s guy go to get some coaching?

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This came up on a webinar I just did. It basically comes down to asking. Find people on LinkedIn or Twitter who are in positions you'd like to aspire to, then kick it off with a DM and ask if they could help answer some of your questions.

Offer some sort of value, like your perspective as a more junior employee and go from there.

I'd also say don't neglect your industry professional groups. Never know who you'll connect with.

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