Using Small Town Networking For Getting Hired In Big Cities

By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter

Originally published in Brainz Magazine

Living in New York City as I did for so many years, everyone tended to live an anonymous life. Former Beatle John Lennon lived anonymously here with no one bothering him when he was on the street walking somewhere. I remember seeing George Harrison standing on the open door of his Rolls-Royce, looking for someone. No one approached him. Generally, celebrities can live anonymous lives in New York City.

When my wife and I moved to Long Island, we started to spend less time in Manhattan. We began to spend more time with other parents, particularly adoptive parents (we adopted our son from Kazakhstan) and found great relationships with other adoptive parents.

Eventually, we moved to a small town in northeastern Pennsylvania that was six blocks by six blocks with one traffic light. The town’s population was a few thousand, stretching beyond the immediate village to a few miles outside. We developed great relationships in this small town before deciding to move to Asheville, North Carolina. But, again, we need to build new…