To be fair to the author, he's writing about networking events, where the whole point of the event is to make connections, not just spend good time with people.
It is work if you're like me and instantly hate most of those people, have no interest in listening to their boring conversations, and would rather be doing anything else ;)
"good time" and "nice people" are not phrases I'd use to describe networking events. More important phrases to me are, "free food" and "open bar".
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Analyzing, designing, cranking out 8,000 lines of code, testing, and deploying by Tuesday is work.
Spending good time with nice people at an event isn't.
To be fair to the author, he's writing about networking events, where the whole point of the event is to make connections, not just spend good time with people.
It is work if you're like me and instantly hate most of those people, have no interest in listening to their boring conversations, and would rather be doing anything else ;)
"good time" and "nice people" are not phrases I'd use to describe networking events. More important phrases to me are, "free food" and "open bar".
how sad
Are you saying that you like talking to people who you have nothing in common with?
It needs some effort to connect, but you can learn from a lot of people.
(And even if you just brush up your social skills, that can be helpful.)
It's called networking for a reason.