I received some messages when I last posted in a 2014 thread, including one from who would eventually become my first manager trying to grow her team. It wasn't

I received some messages when I last posted in a 2014 thread, including one from who would eventually become my first manager trying to grow her team. It wasn't even a good pitch (relative to what I wrote) but I needed a job so talked to pretty much everyone, and as I learned more I convinced myself to continue and readily accepted the offer. Though I thought I might only spend a year in bigco, here we are just about 5 years later... My last job before that was found by getting contacted after uploading my resume to craigslist in 2010, so I consider myself 2/2 on the post-and-wait strategy. I get lots of recruiter spam (mostly via linkedin) but I don't really want to ever think of it in complaint. It's kind of nice to know if I need a new job fast I have a lot of contact entry points to try before playing the submit-application-here lottery or post-and-wait game. And occasionally I've been very tempted to reply to some anyway. It's "spam" in the sense that I've listed not being interested in jumping ship except for having a few rare details that would at least make me consider, but we all know most everyone's technically on the market regardless given the right offer even if it lacks certain 'requirements'. Recruiters just have a job that depends on believing they always have the right offer.