Networking

jaim38

Well-known member
I haven't done much networking lately. Even if I had good social skills and 0 anxiety, something about networking still makes me feel uncomfortable. I don't like the idea of networking just to get jobs because it feels like I'm using people as a means to an end, and they're also using me for the same reason. Lets face it, if I network with, say, 50 people, I will probably never be friends with most of them. I will only have them as a resource to fall on for my job search. And after I'm done with job search, I will not contact them until the next job search. It feels so shallow. But maybe I shouldn't care because many people don't.
 

Odo

Banned
I think that a lot of careers/jobs depend on networking even more than actual skills... it's because universities have lowered their admissions standards, softened their curriculums and turned into diploma-mills churning out thousands of equally qualified grads for each job opening.

Until they bring manufacturing back to the west (like if we go to war with China or something), it's probably only going to get worse.

Part of me thinks that SA wasn't an issue until very recently because society used to have more opportunities for the less socially inclined, so nobody complained because they could get jobs without needing to impress... SA wouldn't be so different from normal introversion if there wasn't so much pressure to charm and manipulate and politic your way into a job, but that's the society we're living in and if you don't have connections/mobility (or some highly specialized skill) then you're pretty much relegated to the bottom.
 
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