Being new to college and the adult world, I'm learning how important it is to network. Thing is, I'm having a hard time connecting with people or making them stay... I've always had similar types of friends growing up but I want to have friends from different places in life for professional and growth reasons. Professional networking scares me. It's different than being buddy buddy. You can't tell them everything like a friend, go to them necessarily for emotional support, but it's important to maintain a long term relationship. One of the people I know is friends with a couple of nurses and I notice that he talks a little more formal with them than he does his regular friends. Reaching out and establishing and maintaining a connection scares me. It seems intimidating and I feel like I'd embarrassed myself by saying the wrong thing.
