Ask HN: Want to join a startup as a developer, looking for a mentor

Hello everyone. I am a 27 year old guy who is desperately looking for new opportunities. I have been programming in Java for the past 5 years, mostly fixing bugs and building new features or parts of the applications I have worked on. I have rarely had the opportunity to build an entire web app by myself, and I learnt most of the Java I know by googling and reading tutorials/books online. I went to a really really academically poor university, I have a very very bad math/analytical background and I lack the fundamentals of computer science, fundamentals meaning algorithms & data structures, operating systems, distributed systems, compilers and last but certainly not least UNIX. I am currently rotting away in a really crappy job fixing bugs for a really crappy product where I don't get the chance to work with all the best practices like design patterns, junit and tdd, and I keep looking at all these cool startups and all the cool technologies they are allowed to work with and I real