[cm2012]

I'm a consultant with a pretty good book of clients now. I could never have gotten started without a network of people I met at business/networking events outside of work.

I've also never gotten a client through a personal or non-work connection. I don't think my social or family network is ritzy enough for that to work.

[mancerayder]

I'm a consultant, too, but I'm new to it and for the past several years relied on luck and recruiters/LinkedIn. Can I ask what types of events? Meetups and tech events? Is that possible as a DevOps engineer, which is very much easy to find via recruiters anyway?