Do you make a habit of going to expense conferences? You should. Why expensive? Because you get what you pay for and the price of admission will virtually guarantee that there will be people there that you should meet and stay in touch with.

Let me recommend one that I expect will be excellent. The New Yorker Conference / 2012: Stories from the near future. May 06 +07, 2007 in New York City. $1200 a ticket and I expect you would be hard pressed to find a more valuable conference to attend this year. For more information www.conference.newyorker.com .

Networking. This event and events like it are for networking. Yes, the speakers will be good, perhaps great, but the real focus on an event like this is always networking.

Remember when I was talking about always being job hunting? Networking is the main part of that. If you become well networked, and stay that way, I can virtually guarantee that you will never have to go looking for work...work will always come looking for you.

Hope to see you at the conference...if we can both get away! Bye for now...Jack