🚫 ANTI-NETWORKING: Talk Dreams, Not Jobs 🚫

Bangkok's Most Honest Meetup (Everyone Lies)
🕖 Sunday 7:00 PM • 🎟️ Free entry • 🍺 Beers from 100 THB per bottle
📍 Thaiger's Bar @36 • https://maps.app.goo.gl/RFfX7zGfPsv8pdtH7

🔥 What It Is: A casual meetup where we skip the career small talk and connect through what actually makes you interesting - dreams, ideas, and curiosities.

🎯 How It Works:
- Skip job/salary talk by default; steer to dreams, ideas, values.
- When someone asks about work → deflect with humor and redirect to something cool.
- Want to talk about your real job? No one's gonna believe you anyway.

🎭 Examples:
- "I'm in Logistics: moving mango sticky rice into my mouth. What's your favorite dessert spot?"
- "I'm an auditor: I audit rooftops for sunset compliance. Got a favorite rooftop bar?"
- "I'm a singer: a shower singer with sold-out shows every night. What kind of music do you like to sing along to?"
- "I'm a surf instructor in Bali. Ever tried surfing? How long did it take to stand up?"
- "I'm a musician - I create the worst ringtones for people to listen to while on hold. When was the last time you heard one of my creations?"

💫 Why It Works:
Anti-networking is a rejection of traditional, transactional networking – the kind where people awkwardly pitch themselves and try to "get something" from others.
Instead, we connect through dreams and values, not job titles.

Research shows "What do you do?" question triggers social anxiety through performance pressure, fear of judgment, and status comparison. Most conversations get stuck there and never escape. Anti-networking skips that trap.

Better connections happen when people share what they care about, not what they do for work.

The result:
- Less status pressure, more authentic listening.
- Dreams build faster connections than resumes.
- Playfulness and jokes lower guards and make connections stick.

Ready for better conversations?
See you on Sunday.