“It’s not what you know, it’s who you know,” — Ralph Kramden aka Jackie Gleason in the “The Honeymooners”
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Wish I’d have paid more attention to the lessons on TV. It wasn’t until later in life that I realized the value of a personal connections network. It was when a sales guy I was nice too even though I could not buy his product, became a hiring manager in Wall Street firm and extends due a job offer that I took.
Now never let it be said that I was the dimmest bulb on the block. I immediately began “collecting contacts”. I’d read about a “Farley File” in Heinlein’s book “Double Star” so I too began my own Farley File. I didn’t discard it until I retired sometime later. (We can debate the stupidity of doing that.)
With cloud computing, it’s so much easier than using paper like in the “Job Changing at 100K+” workbook.
When I was in my own consulting business, I had my “Sunday Morning Imaginary Board of Directors” meeting with: myself the CEO, myself the CFO, myself the CMO, myself as the CTO, myself as the Sasles Manager, myself as the Product Manager, and myself as theThe Product itself. You might say I was full of myself. I should have had a Chief Relationship Manager too.
Anyway, now I am a fat old white guy retired injineer who’s a poor old senior citizen on a fixed income. I have lots of time to Monday Marning Quarterback all the Shoulda, Coulda, and Woulda things that I’d do differently.
“Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.” — Seneca, Letters From a Stoic
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