mrbeachman said:
Not owned... still own a business that I can even successfully operate from another country (yes, I am paying taxes).
This is because I can think outside the box and not let Canadian sheep tell me what to do. I didn't need to "network" at No Frills or Dollarama to make my own living. These jobs don't let you think, let alone network, lol. So, you honestly think someone who has a cousin of a cousin will help you get a job while this very same person who you "network" (god, I love that word) has the same crappy job like you do.
People, please use your brains. Yes, in Canada (like in many third world countries) it is all about who you know. Networking at No Frills or Loblaws will not get you a better job.
You people crack me up!
Networking anywhere will get someone a better job.
I do agree with some (not you) that the concept of networking seems like a misnomer since it's simply socializing with others, and socializing is, in and of itself, and excessively simple notion using social skills we're born with, but being that it's obviously synonymous with business relationships, and since No Frills or any other store you're using as an example is a business like any other, there is no way it hurts someone, especially when they're an immigrant trying to get any job just to start, to increase business relationships, even if it's using a term that makes your poor vag sore. It's common sense that networking is attaining yourself leads toward getting a better job, the presumption that it's a waste of time assumes that someone from No Frills doesn't communicate with someone at, say, Suncor. How supply chain management alone dictates otherwise.
Right out of high school I scored a job with a very prominent video game developer just because I played the same game as him, but I was using that game to network with people in my geographical area as well. That's what started the ball rolling to inevitably become what I have now which is a very well paying job in the oil and gas industry.
The only reason you bash the concept of networking (and you really try hard to find things to be superior to, yet retreat to dat's racist like a liberal baby when someone reveals how *censored word*ing stupid it is) is very much like you bash Canada at every turn and praise some ****hole third world tourist nation. I guess one country's crap is another's treasure. Enjoy your treasure, smart people like myself only go to that area is because my wife has family throughout that region, not because that place has any cultural value. The US alone has beaches in Cali and throughout the Gulf and southern Atlantic coast that are far better with less third world sleaze.
