I had a full mental breakdown over social class

[Seth Walsh]

The question is then how do you make connections? I can only think of a few options:
- Family
- Partner
- Friends
- School (e.g. professor you impressed, graduate supervisor)
- Work (e.g. impressing higher-ups)

If you really looksmaxx you can abuse 2 (meeks). Most people use 1. Friends usually fails in getting you up a class since the rich go to their own schools together, but it can still work with getting a job. Professors are crazy connected so having one by your side is a big advantage, but you have to be high IQ or athletically gifted. Work is the normie method and usually doesn't work because the good reputation is the carrot that's used so you slave away harder.

Usually social clubs where you've repeated exposure to the same people from the same socioeconomic class as you, with no game theoretic incentives at play.

Mixed sports teams with bar after. Joining new sports clubs and scan for good social class opportunity, just rinse and repeat. People from old workplaces.

Family too. Weddings is a big one especially if it's like over a full weekend and in a different country or something.

Tbh. Impressing bosses, professors etc is not a thing. Don't confuse proximity with power. They can be impressed but if they are not incentivised to reward you, they won't.

My top 2.

Mixed sports team with long exposure (weekly) attend for years
Lots of weddings through family etc, you'll get a lot of access to people in their raw form

Aside from that there's nothing much else. Work = big no no.

Nightclubs, pub with the lads = FORGET IT





Depends what kind of connections you mean. But if you mean just no strings attached friendly connections with people. Probs just those 2.

At the end of the day, there'll be few people you really have a connection with a maintain long term.

 

[Alienmaxxer]

They can be impressed but if they are not incentivised to reward you, they won't.

They are incentivized to reward you.

Let me explain: a professor is nothing like a boss.

Bosses want to make you work as hard as possible, maintain you, and ideally take credit for your work. As a result, recommending you to another company or promoting you and getting rid of a hard worker under them would be dumb.

On the other hand, a professor isn't trying to maintain you, because being a supervisor to a student is temporary. In fact, they are trying to make sure you get in as good conditions as possible after being your supervisor. Why? Because no one will want to be their student otherwise in the future.

Being a professor is all about attracting talent, making them work hard, and taking credit for the talents work, but NOT maintaining them. Future talent wont want them as a supervisor if their students go on to be unemployed bums or work at wendys.

Choosing a supervisor is a massive deal in academia. See this site for instance: https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/

This is a site to check whether students of a professor went on to stay in academia. It's a resource where you can see whether their students succeeded in life after them.

But even before graduate school, for example: a large part of being a professor is giving *letters of recommendation,* in fact it's an expected part of a professor's job to do this. If your professor is connected, then these letters are the means by which you can get into very good future schools.

So connections through professors are very useful and can even ascend your class. But again, you have to have something to offer, athleticism or high IQ (i.e. talent).

 

[Seth Walsh]

They are incentivized to reward you.

Let me explain: a professor is nothing like a boss.

Bosses want to make you work as hard as possible, maintain you, and ideally take credit for your work. As a result, recommending you to another company or promoting you and getting rid of a hard worker under them would be dumb.

On the other hand, a professor isn't trying to maintain you, because being a supervisor to a student is temporary. In fact, they are trying to make sure you get in as good conditions as possible after being your supervisor. Why? Because no one will want to be their student otherwise in the future.

Being a professor is all about attracting talent, making them work hard, and taking credit for the talents work, but NOT maintaining them. Future talent wont want them as a supervisor if their students go on to be unemployed bums or work at wendys.

Choosing a supervisor is a massive deal in academia. See this site for instance: https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/

This is a site to check whether students of a professor went on to stay in academia. It's a resource where you can see whether their students succeeded in life after them.

But even before graduate school, for example: a large part of being a professor is giving *letters of recommendation,* in fact it's an expected part of a professor's job to do this. If your professor is connected, then these letters are the means by which you can get into very good future schools.

So connections through professors are very useful and can even ascend your class. But again, you have to have something to offer, athleticism or high IQ (i.e. talent).

Great distinction on professors/supervisors. They can absolutely channel you towards better career openings etc if you are excellent and make them look good too.

Gets way more messed up when you're inside a corporate structure.

Bosses who may admire you and think you're capable of work far beyond what your doing, will never promote you because it'll make incumbents look incompetent, set precedent for other promotions, force them to backfill your old role, force them to provide a "true business case for promotion" to the COO, eat into CFOs margin defence, interfere with company board direction (for example if there's hiring and backfill freezes due to "AI" (which is really just managed decline hidden behind "AI innovation" wording). And it eats into their department budget authority, forces them to ask for permission upward, reduce their own risk and many more things.

 

[Alienmaxxer]

Bosses who may admire you and think you're capable of work far beyond what your doing, will never promote you because it'll make incumbents look incompetent, set precedent for other promotions, force them to backfill your old role, force them to provide a "true business case for promotion" to the COO, eat into CFOs margin defence, interfere with company board direction (for example if there's hiring and backfill freezes due to "AI" (which is really just managed decline hidden behind "AI innovation" wording). And it eats into their department budget authority, forces them to ask for permission upward, reduce their own risk and many more things.

You clearly understand the disadvantages from being inside a corporate structure better than me seeing the detail of your answer lol

One day I'll be forced to learn too