{"id":9410,"date":"2010-09-29T23:27:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T04:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=9410"},"modified":"2010-09-29T23:29:58","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T04:29:58","slug":"networking-or-buzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=9410","title":{"rendered":"Networking or buzz?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I got into town I met with a woman I worked with many years ago, she said “network” as her advice of the day in these times. Almost as if networking replaced plastics – \u00a0advice Dustin Hoffman had in The Graduate<\/em> – tonight after a long day that started at 3:30 this morning and a day trip to Los Angeles I just stumbled out the door to get a bite to eat and sat by myself at the sushi bar when a woman came up and sat beside me. In minutes an entourage joined her – they sounded like colleagues, vibrant, optimistic, cocky – reminded me of my colleagues years ago and I thought about life then and now, wistfully. We started talking, she’s a lesbian – go figure – in a relationship for 16 years, black, beautiful, and we talked a little about life, she whispered to me her advice: “healthcare” and I laughed it was “plastics” yet again. Because plastics and healthcare and finance and networking are all buzz words, advice to those people who are looking for just a job – I’ve always sought a life, something more than a buzz word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I got into town I met with a woman I worked with many years ago, she said “network” as her advice of the day in these times. Almost as if networking replaced plastics – \u00a0advice Dustin Hoffman had in The Graduate – tonight after a long day that started at 3:30 this morning and a day trip to Los Angeles I just stumbled out the door to get a bite to eat and sat… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-2rM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9410"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9414,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9410\/revisions\/9414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}