Apprenticeship | Mentorship | Entrepreneurship
By Mike Cheney, AME Program director
First, we should start by defining entrepreneur.
According to Google, “entrepreneur” comes from the 13th century French verb entreprendre, meaning to do something or to undertake. I think of the term as referring to someone who takes responsibility and authority over an enterprise and its results – usually someone who owns a business.
You may think that apprenticeship and higher education are opposites – choose one or the other. But not so! Depending on your chosen field, a college education may be necessary, and that doesn’t leave mentorship out of it.
Mentorship can happen concurrently with college studies, as it has for decades in fields such as law, medicine, and politics. With some students, mentorship will provide all the training a young person needs to be prepared; with others, a college degree may be necessary.
If you answered yes, then mentorship may be for you!
Mentors have the opportunity to walk beside young people who are pursuing God’s calling in their lives, investing practical and spiritual knowledge into the next generation.
When you become a mentor, you have the opportunity to share your passion for your field of work with someone else. You’ll share your wisdom, lessons you’ve learned the hard way, and life experience, all of which will help kickstart them into their own work.
