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Everything you mention is due to inexperience. Mentors are important Pete, but the good ones are few and far between.
If you get a vet, he is going to be a blow-hard old grizzled "do it my way" type.
So the best advice is to strive to achieve.
1. Take game after game after game. No matter what it is, take it and try to improve on something (i.e., staying down, deliberation, pre-games, etc...)
2. Hustle. Always hustle. Two man mechanics is more hustling than one man. Show the players that you are out there to ump and be in position to make the right call.
3. Don't be in it for the money. Though it is nice, take the $25 game and do them a hundred times. Do it for "the love of the game".
4. Someone, somewhere, through the grapevine will notice and give you a call. Swear. It happened to me. Just keep with it. Think of the small ball as your price you are paying. The "minor" leagues. Pay your dues at the lower levels. And show up the "silver spooned" umps who were paved the easy way.
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