Subj : Personal connections (was: Resume questions, how convey?) To : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.lisp From : rem642b Date : Sat Sep 03 2005 08:33 pm > From: "Shiro Kawai" > once you got many years of experience, you're expected to have enough > personal connections. How is that possible? When I had a job, I was paid to write software, not to socialize with co-workers thereby distracting them from the work they were trying to do. > If you haven't got them, probably you should start from making > them... That sounds like nice advice, but I have no idea how to succeed at that. I've been trying to make contacts ever since I became unemployed in 1991, but as far as I know I haven't acquired even one useful contact yet. People in the same threads as me on newsgroups haven't shown any interest in beocming my personal connections. People in real-life have no common interests with me and have no interest in arranging to see me again because they already have their own friends with common interests and don't need somebody with no common interests with them. Even the people in the computer-programming classes I was taking 2003-05 already had enough friends and didn't need anybody new. Why don't you join this forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/helprobertmaasfindemployment/ and coach me toward obtaining personal connections? .