is this the right way to improve a young person EQ?

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Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t even matter. An 18 year old has nothing of interest to say to me. Of course I would be polite and kind, but I would be looking for the first opportunity to get away from them.

NP. Chillout bommer. An 18 years old definitely knows more about crypto technologies than boomers like you. Have you ever been to crypto conferences? Lots of young people there.

Crypto is a joke.

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Anonymous wrote:DP. You are missing the point. As you started off saying, you were an intern at a company that did work relevant to this conference...not a random teenager tagging along with their parent. If OP's kid has genuine interest in the field, he might be able to develop a successful network...but he would still be a lot more successful at this if he were coming with the badge of a company relevant to the field (not his parent's companion).

FWIW, I might be polite and chat with someone's kid, especially if they seemed genuinely interested in and engaged in the field. But overall, I would not consider that networking for me but rather mentorship...and I have plenty of mentees in whom I'm already fairly invested.

NP. The intern went to the conference his 2nd week on the job. I would venture to say that he had no value to contribute at the conference. OP’s kid is not a teenager, he is a college student.

Can you please explain how you conclude that OP's son is "not a teenager" when OP describes him as "my eighteen years old college freshman DS." Last I checked, and maybe I'm getting old, but "eighteen" is a teenager, meaning below the age of 20.

According to the government, an 18 years old is an adult and css as n enlist in the military to battle. Most importantly, they can vote. That’s not a teenager.

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Anonymous wrote:DP. You are missing the point. As you started off saying, you were an intern at a company that did work relevant to this conference...not a random teenager tagging along with their parent. If OP's kid has genuine interest in the field, he might be able to develop a successful network...but he would still be a lot more successful at this if he were coming with the badge of a company relevant to the field (not his parent's companion).

FWIW, I might be polite and chat with someone's kid, especially if they seemed genuinely interested in and engaged in the field. But overall, I would not consider that networking for me but rather mentorship...and I have plenty of mentees in whom I'm already fairly invested.

NP. The intern went to the conference his 2nd week on the job. I would venture to say that he had no value to contribute at the conference. OP’s kid is not a teenager, he is a college student.

Can you please explain how you conclude that OP's son is "not a teenager" when OP describes him as "my eighteen years old college freshman DS." Last I checked, and maybe I'm getting old, but "eighteen" is a teenager, meaning below the age of 20.

According to the government, an 18 years old is an adult and css as n enlist in the military to battle. Most importantly, they can vote. That’s not a teenager.

Yet they're still under the age of 20, making them a teenager. Plus, 18 year old PFCs in the Army are just as dumb as high school seniors.

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Anonymous wrote:DP. You are missing the point. As you started off saying, you were an intern at a company that did work relevant to this conference...not a random teenager tagging along with their parent. If OP's kid has genuine interest in the field, he might be able to develop a successful network...but he would still be a lot more successful at this if he were coming with the badge of a company relevant to the field (not his parent's companion).

FWIW, I might be polite and chat with someone's kid, especially if they seemed genuinely interested in and engaged in the field. But overall, I would not consider that networking for me but rather mentorship...and I have plenty of mentees in whom I'm already fairly invested.

NP. The intern went to the conference his 2nd week on the job. I would venture to say that he had no value to contribute at the conference. OP’s kid is not a teenager, he is a college student.

Can you please explain how you conclude that OP's son is "not a teenager" when OP describes him as "my eighteen years old college freshman DS." Last I checked, and maybe I'm getting old, but "eighteen" is a teenager, meaning below the age of 20.

According to the government, an 18 years old is an adult and css as n enlist in the military to battle. Most importantly, they can vote. That’s not a teenager.

Yet they're still under the age of 20, making them a teenager. Plus, 18 year old PFCs in the Army are just as dumb as high school seniors.

I am glad you’re not running the government. I hope not.

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I am taking my 18 years DS and 18 years old niece with me to Amazon Web Service (AWS) reinvent 2023 this weekend. DS talked to so many people at the conference last year that one person he met at the conference offered him a good paying government contracting when he had not finished high school working remotely. My niece is hoping for the same result thid year, her first time at the werk long conference. You just have to put yourself out there and good thing will happen.

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I’m in a leadership role at a vendor company that hosts events.

Please do not bring your kid. It’s inappropriate and people will notice.

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Anonymous wrote:I took my wife and three kids last conference it is not that crazy

It's one thing to take family. It's another to ask vendors to pay for your family (a bribe) and then to have your kid interfere with your work.

If vendors are ok with it, what’s the issue?

Last I checked, OP wasn't employed by the vendors. Most major companies want vendors with the best products and pricing, not who's best at bribing the company's employees. Is ethics a novel concept for you?

They do but vendors also want to keep a good networking relationship with OP so they don’t mind helping out the son. That’s how the world operates. I see this all the times.

Stop sock puppeting, OP. English isn’t your first language and the way you write gives you away.

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Anonymous wrote:OP is looking for agreement, not for advice. So annoying when posters do this, shows a total lack of self-awareness.
It is a poor idea to take your teenager as a plus one to a conference. Vendors and business associates might tolerate but not welcome him.
Very different from the intern poster above who was invited in a professional capacity.

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