I’m no good at networking.

I used to care about such things, but now you’d have to take me out back and beat me just to get me to tell you what I do. And even then, I probably won’t give you much of a story.

It’s not that we aren’t looking for new clients, or business partners, or whatevers. It’s that we do it differently. And I completely abhor the idea of talking with people in casual settings in the hope we can someday work together. Maybe this means I’m crotchety, but I’d rather just hear what people are up to, sans pitch.

So, while I hear others saying they need to get better at networking, I’m pretty content to let it go. There are more productive ways to land work (full disclosure: we have brilliant project managers,) and there are definitely more comfortable ways to hang out at events.

Oh, and this, of course, has nothing to do with my performance at last night’s event.