Tuesday, August 4, 2009

#86: corporate GBLT networking event

I finally did it. I RSVPed for my first gay social event at work. This opportunity has presented itself numerous times before only for me to either already have plans or chicken out because I didn't have anyone else to go with.

I'm still a bit freaked out about it but I do think it's time that I started to network a bit more within my company, plus the event actually sounds like a lot of fun.

Going to an event is of course different than coming out to a select group of people at work (which I've yet to do apart from the colleagues I worked with on my London assignment and one person here in NYC). It puts me completely out there to many people I've never even interacted with before.

Granted numerous things could happen at this event -
  • I could run into someone I know
  • I could run into someone who knows someone I know and so forth....
But I figure these networks exist for a reason and I should take advantage of it. I'm excited (and still freaked). But hey, maybe I'll meet some cool people.

4 comments:

kgb1172 said...

Can I just say that the length of your posts is very very very excellent. You keep them short enough to make the point and long enough to flesh out important parts. Wonderful.

jay said...

@kgb - that's partially because I've been typing them all on my iPhone while on the go.

But yeah, I do like the shorter posts as well.

Jeff said...

haha, do you remember the one that we went to years ago? it was in the hard rock at times sq, and it was pretty sketchy....

jay said...

@jeff - yeah that was sketchy. This one is for my company only while that one was more of an intercompany kind of thing. I'll let you know how it goes.