You seem to be mistaking the word mentor for master tradesman. A mentor/ mentee relationship is far less formal and far less task oriented. She's not suggesting you go into a local high school and become a history tutor, but rather go into a high school and help provide a more useful role model for some young girl there than the over-sexed vapid Barbie dolls they watch on TV. Just spending time, with an adult like yourself, one that has pushed themselves through undergrad & grad school, made a solid life for herself, found a healthy and supportive relationship, embraces herself and her interests without looking to society for approval, made mistakes through out the process and came out the other side all the better for them, but is still cool and not quite their parents so they feel like they can relate, is HUGE! Trust me you are fully qualified and extremely good at this already, you've just never done it! My mother has worked for the YWCA for years setting up and creating her own mentor relationships like this, and from what I've seen they ALL really get something out of it and your just as qualified as the mentors I've seen, if not more so!!