6 years ago I left a comfortable job to step into a parallel world of contracting. Only had 6 months guaranteed employment. Since then I’ve built a reputation for hard work, efficiency, and no drama and I can’t keep up with the job offers. Working three full time gigs and turning down others.
It’s all about who you know and how you conduct yourself
I recently read a book called "The Defining Decade" which emphasizes spread out "soft" ie casual / secondary social connections for attaining jobs and status. Basically having a friend of a friend recommend you in some industry.
Connections, connections, connections. There's a reason why mens clubs were attacked by inclusion policies so heavily - they right-coded and the establishment always hates rival poles of influence. Maybe its time to revitalise those instruments and create new clubs and associations.
If you show up at an 'exchange club' or church or something similar in your home town right now, it's the perfect time. Boomers want to retire, so if you show up and start telling people you're willing to take on responsibilities, they'll start handing you power. Local political organizations (the old established ones) are the same.
Recently let an opportunity slip by due to risk aversion and, in retrospect, a sort of laziness. Still kicking myself, especially as I’m now looking at diff opportunities that would be, in all likelihood, a lateral step or a step backwards overall.
That's true. Do not hesitate when an opportunity is offered. We need our people with institutional power, then we can do to the Left what they've been trying to do to us for years. They're terrified, now that they've fallen out of cultural favor, that our righteous fury will find purchase. See that it does.
6 years ago I left a comfortable job to step into a parallel world of contracting. Only had 6 months guaranteed employment. Since then I’ve built a reputation for hard work, efficiency, and no drama and I can’t keep up with the job offers. Working three full time gigs and turning down others.
It’s all about who you know and how you conduct yourself
I recently read a book called "The Defining Decade" which emphasizes spread out "soft" ie casual / secondary social connections for attaining jobs and status. Basically having a friend of a friend recommend you in some industry.
It's the primary methodology at this point.
Connections, connections, connections. There's a reason why mens clubs were attacked by inclusion policies so heavily - they right-coded and the establishment always hates rival poles of influence. Maybe its time to revitalise those instruments and create new clubs and associations.
If you show up at an 'exchange club' or church or something similar in your home town right now, it's the perfect time. Boomers want to retire, so if you show up and start telling people you're willing to take on responsibilities, they'll start handing you power. Local political organizations (the old established ones) are the same.
Recently let an opportunity slip by due to risk aversion and, in retrospect, a sort of laziness. Still kicking myself, especially as I’m now looking at diff opportunities that would be, in all likelihood, a lateral step or a step backwards overall.
Point is: you need to show up AND not be a little fuckin pussy.
That's true. Do not hesitate when an opportunity is offered. We need our people with institutional power, then we can do to the Left what they've been trying to do to us for years. They're terrified, now that they've fallen out of cultural favor, that our righteous fury will find purchase. See that it does.