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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People that are good at networking and do it naturally have no idea what it's like for people who are not/do not. [/quote]

It's a skill like any other. Some people are good naturally, others develop it. All you have to do to be fine at is it to be friendly, curious about other people and their work, and able to draw connections between things and people you know and things other people are interested in. And even if you can just do those first two, that's not bad. [/quote]

Respectfully disagree. 
Many people are friendly and curious and can practice that skill at the grocery store. Networking is a currency and the underlying feeling is that you want something from the other person (a job). The job, the money, the dependence is what is utterly detestable? ignominious? I can't think of the word-- to certain personality types. If you don't know, you can't know, and that's okay. Just don't be so glib and understand that there are personalities like this. [/quote]

Well, yeah, if you go into networking from the perspective of you looking for a job from someone, that's not going to feel good. Go in looking to be useful and trying to build relationships and it'll be a lot better. If you wait to do until you're desperate and meeting strangers and need a job now, well, that was a choice. But that's not what most networking is. [/quote]

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