In my case I need time for my family, time for my friends, time for my work as a developer, time for research, time to complete work to get paid. I get requests

In my case I need time for my family, time for my friends, time for my work as a developer, time for research, time to complete work to get paid. I get requests for work that I have to turn people away so you are correct it isn't what I am optimising for, Networking is very far down the list ;)