Network.

I don’t mean that you should suddenly know everyone and have this huge network overnight.

Start to build relationships and have meaningful connections.

This could be in the form of reconnecting with your old friends that you have forgotten due to graduate school.

Maybe it is time to be a good friend again.

I had become so focused on work in graduate school that I had trouble remembering who my friends were.

I barely ever saw them.

So, literally, get up and get outside of the lab.

Get some sunlight.

Go for a walk. Go to a friend’s house.

I was visiting my friend’s newborn puppies when I ended up networking and getting referred for my job.

Don’t think of networking as this really difficult and unnatural thing that you have to do.

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