Seth is one of my favorite authors and he has amazing insight on this issue. Thanks for the feedback and the read - Jamie

The emphasis on networking and the “How can I help you?” attitude are the two most important pieces of advice — I know that they are central to the premise of Keith Ferrazzi’s ‘Never Eat Alone’; and in my personal life, they have benefited me as well. Though I am young, none of the job offers and opportunities I have found would have ever come about unless I offered my services in the form of volunteership, and worked my way up from there. I certainly made a good impression and grow more conscious of networking the older I get, but there is still something to be said for hard work.

By the way, this post reminded me of a brief article Seth Godin released over the weekend, in which he posed the question “But what happens when we start using our heads, not our hands, when our collars change from blue to white?”

I think the answer may very well be the emergence of free agents.