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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I go to professional events in my field, and I also volunteer to give talks at those events. This might be a conference, but there are also local/free/online events. 
I write things and post them to LinkedIn that could be useful to people, and I wind up talking to people that way. 
I ask friends if they know people I should be talking to
None of this is explicitly about finding my next job, it's more about being useful and talking to people who share my professional interests. [/quote]

I’m in an extremely niche field — very few people would find me “useful” (think like squirrel mating patterns in Delaware). [/quote]

Can you do side projects with the skills you've learned in your field? None of the speaking and writing I do is directly out of projects for my current job. I don't know specifically what's going to make you more visible in your broader field, but there's got to be something. Like, in your example, it seems like you might have something to offer/learn from with the squirrel mating people in other states, but also maybe other animal researchers. Also, I bet a lot of people would actually be fascinated by this because it's so different. [/quote]

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