On Networking and Sincerity
Okay I read somewhere that a person writes better when one is upset but it takes true skill and mastery to write well when one is happy; simply because, the heart is crying out to speak out. Well that would probably makes me a poor writer. Its going to be another dreary entry.
There is going to be more changes at work and its not something that i look forward to. I was so close to hitting that comfort zone when all these nonsense start again. Sometimes I ask myself is this all worth it? You work hard and build up working relationship only to see it disrupted in a flash. Is it worth building up a close relationship in the first place? Must we built up such adaptibilty to the point of mechanical "networking"?
Really I hate that word: "networking". It connotes immediately of self-serving agenda of expanding contacts for own personal gains without regards for the person that you are speaking to. Sometimes people tell me to go this function that function or this lunch that lunch to "network", I cringe at the word. It really doesnt sound persuasive when one ask me to go certain events to "network". You are there to meet inherently unpredictable people consisting of different backgrounds and not to speak to robots that will help you to expand your "market base" when you want to speak to them. People are different and have varying moods, and one does not just respond to yor intentions to "converse" with or without any ill intentions. Really people just have moods.
I want to talk to people not "network" with people. I dont want to know what is your occupation so that I want to make a sale or put myself out for future employment. Really, real conversations are hard to come by. Conversations with geniune interest is like lightning, it never seems to strike twice. Hire me because you believe in me and think I can do that job. Talk to me because you want to and not because you need my help. Really in this world where money talks, sincerity counts for nothing. Sincerity counts insofar they raked in the dollars. But is this called "sincerity" in the first place?
But I believed that if one is sincere, one will succeed. For all those that have "leveraged" on sincerity for personal gains, i believed that sincerity will bite back; because money is insincere.