<story><title>Network Determines Success More Than People Realize</title><url>https://medium.com/swlh/your-network-determines-success-more-than-you-realize-41a3e889ecea</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dorkwood</author><text>I use to think of networking as “going to events and handing out my business card”, which I could never quite bring myself to do. I figured I just wasn’t cut out for the whole networking thing.&lt;p&gt;What I ended up realising after looking back over my career was that I’ve been networking this whole time without even meaning to. By generally working hard and being friendly those who have come and gone over the years, I now have a pretty sizeable network of people who will vouch for me. If someone ever asks me for networking advice, it will be “find a job where other people are doing the same thing as you, and then become someone they enjoy working with”.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leereeves</author><text>The dark side of that is discrimination when &amp;quot;someone they enjoy working with&amp;quot; is based on more than a friendly attitude and hard work.&lt;p&gt;And I&amp;#x27;m not just talking about the politically favored and protected groups. I&amp;#x27;d say it applies even more so to groups that don&amp;#x27;t get that political support.</text></comment>
<story><title>Network Determines Success More Than People Realize</title><url>https://medium.com/swlh/your-network-determines-success-more-than-you-realize-41a3e889ecea</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dorkwood</author><text>I use to think of networking as “going to events and handing out my business card”, which I could never quite bring myself to do. I figured I just wasn’t cut out for the whole networking thing.&lt;p&gt;What I ended up realising after looking back over my career was that I’ve been networking this whole time without even meaning to. By generally working hard and being friendly those who have come and gone over the years, I now have a pretty sizeable network of people who will vouch for me. If someone ever asks me for networking advice, it will be “find a job where other people are doing the same thing as you, and then become someone they enjoy working with”.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ed_balls</author><text>Even having a Github profile and some open source contributions is networking in my book.</text></comment>