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Idk what you do for a living, but I haven't gotten the impression you've been switching careers much over the past few years.
Two employers in the last 22 years and in the same "profession" for the last 17 (or so).
I have, and I am legitimately surprised at how useless LinkedIn is compared to more barebones job board sites like Indeed. I have gotten multiple jobs off Indeed, while my only job interview I've gotten off of LinkedIn to my recollection was a borderline scam "outside sales" job I got offered immediately after graduating college.
A good 25% of my contacts on the site are recruiters (aka headhunters). Due to factors they've nothing to offer me in terms of advancing my career. When I say I've no interest in driving further for less money they come up empty.
Two years ago I took an interview, right in the height of the NBA free agency recruiting season. Taking a page out of Kawai's book, I went in asking what they could do for me, and how bad do they want it. Unlike KL, things didn't really progress from there. But joke's on them, it would have been a sizable paycut and the atmosphere seemed shitty. The one allure was they have a shooting range and that would have save me a ton of driving and allowed for more frequent opportunity to hone the skills.
So yeah, Linkedin was never my friend.


