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[quote=Anonymous]Back in early 2020 when laid off in Covid I started posting a lot on LinkedIn.

I did not land a full time role until March 2021. (Did a contracting gig in between six months) so kept posting, engaging in content of others. Doing likes.

The job in March 2021 was not a forever job so still spent 30-60 minutes a day on LinkedIn. I finally got my dream job April 2023 and now only post once a month and comment on another posted 2-3 times a week.

Nothing crazy as goal was a new job. Just interesting career related topics.

Well I went to my first IRL big conference this week. It was very weird. 30-40 people introduced themselves as they said they follow me in LinkedIn and love my content. And the key note speaker I went to say hi reached out to me and called me by name and introduced me around as he follows me.

Then I was asked to present at next conference as I have a following.

Was weird. I was desperate in Covid and at peak I was on LinkedIn 4-5 hours a day for almost 18 months. I mean I would blow 5-10 hours a week just writing original posts. No copy paste.

But I was in basement desperate job hunting in pandemic.

I was posting into a black hole for almost six years. Funny how IRL intersects. The keynote speaker of the 600 person conference invited me to co present with him at next event at his session. I said on what topic? He laughed don’t you have a million topics and 10,000 followers.

Hope I am not a big fat fake as one thing to write posts in word, spell check then, add a good picture, speak check then copy and paste into a post then speaking live in front of 600 people. I also got invited in 2027 to present 800 person conference another guy who follows me. They are always looking for speakers with a following.

Was weird but shows maybe something good will happen. If I don’t bomb [/quote]

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