>This is all about meeting people in real world and talking to them. Events, conferences, paid introductions. Right. I've always told people to do 2 things to

>This is all about meeting people in real world and talking to them. Events, conferences, paid introductions. Right. I've always told people to do 2 things to always have a job and lots of job offers all the time: 1) public speaking at events and conferences. 2) public writing. I know a guy, did SQL stuff, and if there was a group of 2 people that got together for a local users group, he'd travel 200 miles to give a presentation in front of them. He'd been doing it for years, as in decades. The guy got 4 - 5 job offers every day. He had his computer there and showed me the offers coming into his email. And of course, if you do a lot of writing for any kind of journal or blog, and get published, that's also going to explode your contacts. . When you publicly speak or write, it establishes you as an industry leader, even if there are people more technically knowledgeable than you are.