20th February 2012, 05:57 PM
Perhaps I was a little misleading, I have been digging for a few years and have an existing network of friends and colleagues, but the IFA conference helped to give broadened my horizons a little. I think if you are willing to make the effort then people will help you out. I like to think that my fellow diggers will help me out as much, in fact probably more, than the people I met at the IFA conference but that it is important to keep your horizons wide and make the most of any opportunity. If you wish to move into a different area or specialism it can be hard to go through existing contacts. Management types should not be ruled out because they are management; I think they are normal people at the end of the day? 
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Going to the IFA conference gave me confidence I perhaps might not have got elsewhere. I introduced myself as just a digger at that moment because that?s what I thought people would want to hear, but I was pleasantly surprised to hear otherwise. I?m sure you will all be pleased to hear that I do change my job title depending on who I?m talking too and what I want
. Going to the IFA conference gave me confidence I perhaps might not have got elsewhere. I introduced myself as just a digger at that moment because that?s what I thought people would want to hear, but I was pleasantly surprised to hear otherwise. I?m sure you will all be pleased to hear that I do change my job title depending on who I?m talking too and what I want