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Matt Barrow wrote:

Fortunate? You get a job based on fortunes of life?

Yep. According to the NY Times (the job market section of which I check every
Sunday), roughly 80% of all the professional positions never get advertised. The
people who land them get turned onto the position by their friends. The PC term
for this is "networking." Another way to put it is that you can land a decent
job if you're lucky.

George Patterson
There's plenty of room for all of God's creatures. Right next to the
mashed potatoes.

Yep. According to the NY Times (the job market section of which I check
every Sunday), roughly 80% of all the professional positions never get
advertised. The people who land them get turned onto the position by their
friends. The PC term for this is "networking." Another way to put it is
that you can land a decent job if you're lucky.

In my experience, networking has very little to do with luck.

Some people call it "schmoozing" -- but in real life, networking is a lot of
hard, sometimes crappy, work, and is often associated with glad-handing
people you would just as soon not deal with.

In this way it's a lot like "customer service" -- except that *you* are the
ultimate customer.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

In article E_E8e.23627$8Z6.14028@attbi_s21, Jay Honeck wrote:
In my experience, networking has very little to do with luck.

Sometimes it does. My last two jobs were got through 'networking' - I
just happened to meet the right people. One was a member of the flying
club. The other the CFI of the glider club. It just so happened I was
the person they were looking for.

Never underestimate the power of 'networking'.

But as for much of my fortunes - yes, they are mostly the product of
luck. I didn't have any control over my birth - it was certainly
fortunate that being born into a middle class British family means I was
born into the world's richest 10%. The vast majority of the world
doesn't have it anywhere as easy.

--
Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man
Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net
Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net
"Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee"

But as for much of my fortunes - yes, they are mostly the product of
luck. I didn't have any control over my birth - it was certainly
fortunate that being born into a middle class British family means I was
born into the world's richest 10%. The vast majority of the world
doesn't have it anywhere as easy.

That's for sure. If any of us have luck on our side, it's surely those of
us who were fortunate enough to be born in the "Western world."
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

That's for sure. If any of us have luck on our side, it's surely those of
us who were fortunate enough to be born in the "Western world."

Oh, crap -- there I go again, being "racist"...

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:
That's for sure. If any of us have luck on our side, it's surely those of
us who were fortunate enough to be born in the "Western world."


Oh, crap -- there I go again, being "racist"...


Don't worry about it, Jay (and, I can see you aren't).

You've got your head on straight. Biases? Yeah, you got 'em.
Opinions, yeah, those too. Prejudices? Sure.

The socialistas and the hate-America-first crowd here have 'em too,
despite the fact they won't admit it. The difference is, their
arguments don't hold up under scrutiny.

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:UmN8e.26114$8Z6.8446@attbi_s21...
But as for much of my fortunes - yes, they are mostly the product of
luck.

History is rife with stories about people of "noble birth" winding up insane
and destitute, and, OTOH, most of our wealthiest people were born on the
wrong side of the tracks.



I didn't have any control over my birth - it was certainly
fortunate that being born into a middle class British family means I was
born into the world's richest 10%. The vast majority of the world
doesn't have it anywhere as easy.

"Palace to poor house in two generations" -- American witicism from the late
1800's


That's for sure. If any of us have luck on our side, it's surely those of
us who were fortunate enough to be born in the "Western world."

And even that isn't enough for most, and some of the wealthiest people
are/were from Hong Kong, and Chinese are often the weathiest people in the
countries in which they reside, often causing servere envy.

"George Patterson" wrote in message
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Matt Barrow wrote:

Fortunate? You get a job based on fortunes of life?

Yep. According to the NY Times (the job market section of which I check
every
Sunday), roughly 80% of all the professional positions never get
advertised. The
people who land them get turned onto the position by their friends. The PC
term
for this is "networking." Another way to put it is that you can land a
decent
job if you're lucky.

Or if you're tenacious and willing to work "outside the box". The rest
shower the job boards with resumes, probably 99% of which don't address a
specific position and are boilerplate.

Which traits would you look for if hiring someone?


Matt
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO