So, I made a LinkedIn account.
Connected with a bunch of coworkers and people I went to school with.
And then, I let it sit for a few years.
Every now and then, someone requests a connection.
Or there’s a bunch of people congratulating me for a work anniversary.
Then there’s the waves of connection requests by coworkers.
Usually, that a sign something bad is coming.
They ask me for recommendations.
So, I agree, and then the prospective employer calls me, I tell them the truth:
“You know what? I recommend that you hire me instead.”
And I hang up.
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I was persuaded to get a Linked In account. It was supposed to do me a world of good and get me lots of gigs. For fifty years I worked as an actor, so I was always in need of the next show to work. I had already learned that the ‘benefits’ that would do me good never got me a single gig. I got lots of messages from strangers, one nasty letter from a woman with the same name as someone else, and many offers to be CEO from companies in places like Chicago. I could not disconnect from the Linked In set up. I finally had to get a programmer friend from IBM to spend a day ridding me of that troublesome pest.