/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>56372089
networking is a meme
it don't happen

I only Network on plebbit

normies socialize autismos don't

>>56372105
normies have gay sex and get drunk and do drugs, that is all

>>56372089
That is just them coping with the fact that they got hired due to nepotism

>>56372089
I am socially anxious but am very good at bullshiting in public and acting like im genuinely interested in the conversation so I do pretty well in these situations, It's strange..
and yeah networking/drinks has helped my career a lot so i would recommend it even for us autismanons

>>56372108
This is it. Either you are born into it or not. All these people create myths around their success when in reality it was their parents, not that there is anything wrong with that but they keep peddling a lie

>>56372089
OP in the back right

>>56372089
This is Arizona isnt it? Give me a location and Ill pull up in 30-60 minutes I swear to god

>>56372108
This. When your only value was being born in the right place and also by default knowing people from the same background, ofc this is what you will say was the most important "skill" you had (and what makes you "exceptional")

>>56372089
I avoid all interaction if I can help it

>>56372089
I show the ok sign to people. If they do ok sign back, then they are “frens” if you know what I mean

Fuck this networking shit! Wish I was born rich so I have all the networking in life already set up for me.

>>56372261
You were born rich, in spirit. As Socrates would say, "you have gold already in your soul."

>>56372108
BINGO

"networking" is just nepotism

>>56372089
Ye “netwroking” with their mom and dad and uncle and cousins.
>>56372108
This

>>56372089
if you are a sperg then going to these would only hurt you since people will avoid you. your best chance is to just be good at your job and then the chads will want you in their company to do work for them

>>56372089
you need to be valuable to attract valuable people.. so focus on becoming valuable first, wether on a craft(skills) or becoming wealthy otherwise you will attract people that will get you nowhere and go around in circles

>>56372099
>>56372108
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>>56372299
Networking works if you are
>1.in shape
>2.tall
>3. funny
>4.have a wife/gf
It’s a little harder if you dont drink but not a big deal if you have two of the four.

>>56372509
This is only partially true. Most people (even those that are just networking) are emotional. If you are pleasing to look at to women or are funny, opportunities will come to you, even if you don’t have many skills.

>>56372517
No shit, being a chad itself is a networking magnet.
You don’t need to do shit, people WILL try to talk to you

>>56372528
Yes but it’s not impossible like some of these anons are saying. You can’t change it if you’re short but you can join a gym and change your diet. If you aren’t funny, get a bar tending job on the weekends or join an improv class. The improv class alone will be networking.

>>56372541
No it’s not impossible
But it’s worthless

>>56372547
Is it? I’ve seen people a lot less capable than me go a lot father career wise because they can talk about whatever bullshit show they saw on goyflix. I don’t like it, but I can’t sit here and say it’s not effective.

>>56372566
That’s not “networking”
Networking means that you go out of your way, to connect with valuable people.
Water cooler talk is not one

>>56372593
Valuable people still watch shows, anon. If all you know is your career and have no hobbies or interests, your networking will fall flat.

>>56372089
Is it normal to get only rejected in your first 23 years of life
>outcast in middle and highschool
>dropped from frat in college after a short stint of being a normie because I pissed someone off i dont really know
>rejected from 9/10 jobs in college, always ended up in some warehouse or shitty grunt job that would take anyone after being rejected from campus store, dorm RA, on campus research
>year post grad rejected from over a dozen job interviews
>hundreds of applications
>no friends anymore
>more broke than I even was in university
>no will anymore to even try because I already know the outcome
What did I do so wrong, you cant even tell me I didnt try. And I always could hold a conversation, eye contact, I even have had friends and gfs im not a mega sperg but people can tell im just off somehow and dont want me around.

>>56372631
I don’t watch “shows” but I can talk about them to no end because usually popular shows will be all over the internet
It doesn’t help

>>56372837
Then you need to work on being funny. Remember, it’s a mixture of having things in common outside of your careers AND being likeable.

>>56372654
you might be ugly or short or brown

>>56372108
also cronyism, I had a good shot at the best job I would have ever had recently and I told my friend and his parents where I applied, next thing I know he has the job because his dad was friends an executive even though he's less experienced and less qualified.

>>56372654
That reminds me
>in music college, kicking ass. Way ahead of my peers
>when I arrived, apparently I booted an upperclassmen out of his band seat and got him placed in the lower retard band
>this made him seethe and hate my guts (didn't even know)
>see him at an event, he's talking about a guy who overdosed on pills and died a few years ago in the music program
>say, in passing, out of hand, "He sounds like a real character"
>he takes it the complete wrong way, even though that was meant as a compliment
>he complains to all the senior leadership in the music fraternity and gets me kicked out of the rush
>dig around for answers, everyone tells me "it was Jarrod that told us about what you said"
>for the rest of the year, he acts friendly to my face the entire time
>drop out once I realize this guy has gone to literally every person he could think of and badmouthed me, ruining any chance I had at making connections. Every professor, every director, all of them
So, in short, I paid $12,000 to get seethed at for an entire year by a retard who can't play his instrument and got kicked out of the music fraternity because he was looking for even one little slip-up that he could use to screw me over. I sometimes wish the duel-to-the-death system was still in place so I could have set that limp wristed faggot in his place.

>>56373306
I don't give a fuck

>>56373306
A mask and a bat would have sold your problem

>>56373367
If he was even remotely good at music, I would have probably done that out of a sense of competition, but he was absolutely terrible. Worse than most people when they start playing. He had no future in music and I think he knew it. If I ever see him again I'll whip him mercilessly with a belt.

>>56373037
I am funny
People tel me I should be a stand up comedian all the time
Doesn’t help that they forget about me the moment I step out of the room cause my looks is not “desirable”
You know how many phone calls I receive daily? Zero
Texts? Zero
Hell not even a happy birth day or happy new year in my 30 years of life
Wait I had one actual birthday when I was 7 and that’s it

>>56373383
Naw man you should have taken his knees out of principle vindictive behavior like that needs to be punished

>>56373306
>"yeah the guy OD'd on pills and passed away, real sad"
>"LoL SoUNds LikE a ReAL CHarActeR nyuk nyuk nyuk!!!11"
what did he mean by this

>>56372089
When rich people say networking they don't mean just knowing people.
It is about knowing people when you have something to offer and they have something to offer in return.

If you are a broke wagie or newgrad you have nothing to offer. No experience, no contracts, no ventures, no valuable connections.

When people network they gauge the other person in terms of what they can get from that person.

>>56373510
Rich people “network” with peers or daddy mommy uncle and cousins
All today billionaires were propped up by their parents

>>56372089
The guy you wanna know in that pic is the guy with flip flops.

>>56372089
>All the rich people I know say networking is the most important thing yet /biz/ never discusses it. Why?
For the same reason Facebook is a massive, profitable company but could disappear tomorrow and almost no one would give a shit. That's "networking" in a nutshell - a non-necessary but profitable endeavor sometimes but mostly a big circle jerk other times.

What are "rich" people supposed to tell you? That their Daddies did it for them (the truth most of the time)? No, they need to offer you something to get you to go away while also making themselves feel superior - enter "networking." It wasn't the $5 million loan their Daddies gave to them, it was because they could call someone else their Daddies introduced them to. /rolls eyes.

This is what networking really is - a person who can vouch for you. That's it. I was a banker. In a certain city in the US, I could make one phone to call to *realistically* 10 different people and have a job from that phone call. Why? Because I worked with them directly, they know my skill, and they would want me to do work for them. Those 10 people are connected to thousands of other people who they could introduce me to. THAT'S networking - someone vouching for you. That didn't come from fiddling each others' dicks at a mixer; it came from doing actual work.

You know what else you could do instead of "networking"? Actual work. That makes money. Would accomplish the same thing.

>>56373473
I'm glad someone understands the extreme subtlety in that statement.

>>56372089
every single person in this picture should just get their faces caved in with a metal pipe

>>56373745
No, I'm literally saying I have no clue what you meant. how was that a "compliment" to the band prick

>>56373904
Compared to
>Yeah that guy was a druggie retard, sorry that happened bro, he should have taken less pills
It was a compliment. It was the nicest thing I could say. "Oh, he sounded like a real character"

easy heuristic:
those who can, do
those who can't, talk
guess where networking fits

>>56374386
Or you know, coulda concealed your power level and say something benign like “my condolences, when did that happens?”
Easy
That fag was a cunt but I mean comeon

>>56372089
The whole reason I want money in the first place is so I don't have to talk to people.