I love the writing style in this piece. Feels a lot like some kind of transcript from a talk. Anyway, in my household it's my SO who handles the networking - s

I love the writing style in this piece. Feels a lot like some kind of transcript from a talk. Anyway, in my household it's my SO who handles the networking - she's brilliant at this and spent the last few years creating her network from scratch after we moved to this city. I get to tag along as the "neighborhood IT guy". Meanwhile, after over a decade in this industry and scooping up contacts from each organization I've been to, as I recently discovered whilst trying to lubricate the relationship between a friend of mine and a prospective employer, I can achieve precisely dick with the network that I have. One thing that naturally works to her advantage is giving off an aura of the least threatening person in the world. People just open up to her. Unfortunately this is not replicable.