Day 47: Connections

"It's all about who you know." 

I think I've been lucky with my connections in life - and as time goes on, they only seem to get better.

Places connections have benefited me:

• Travel

I've gone nomadic/gypsy three times in the last while and between the three, lasting 3-6 months each, I've stayed in a total of two hotels.  And I did not pay for the hotel either of those two times due to reward points or other people donating their reward points.  Without connections to people or through people that would not have been possible.

• Jobs

I've always been able to find jobs - short term and long term - regularly.  Connections to bigger companies and all of my prior experiences building me up with a skill set to work in a variety of places now have enabled me to be employed.  Beyond those connections into specific work worlds, simply knowing people from my daily life has given me good reference to others in their lines of work.

• Friends

I've feel lucky that I've been able to find new friends in new places through mutual friends or someone guiding me to the right locations.  With my friends I feel it rings true that birds of a feather flock together.  I seem to find similar friends everywhere and because of this have no qualms about sending someone else in their direction if there is a need or desire.

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Certainly I'm thankful for these connections as I'm sure I would not be who I am today without them.

Today they apply because I am working as a substitute and simply by having connections to some teachers, I am able to connect with more teachers and find more opportunities within.  I am lucky.