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Many of us think of networking like teenagers think about sex - everyone else seems to be doing it so it must be cool; therefore, everyone pretends they are good at it, so anyone not pretending feels they are missing out on something awesome.
Ten months ago, I was happily employed at Nike and saw myself staying there for several more years. Most of my colleagues were great and I felt I was contributing to something productive.
I found Sam (name changed). He and I went to middle and high school in Mumbai in the 1990s. We celebrated birthdays together and studied together. Then, after finishing school, as often happens with close friends, we drifted apart.
He and I connected only infrequently since, but never ever fell out of touch. I moved to the US in 2000 and he much later. He has been based in the valley for years, and had contacts up and down in the Bay Area.
I took the job, in what turned out to be one of the best professional decisions of my life. I appreciated all the help Sam offered me unselfishly in the short time-window within which I had to give Netflix my response.
This was rewarding for me at two levels. After having worked very hard to prove myself in a new environment, that my views about a potential new hire were taken seriously was confidence-affirming. Second, it is always great when you can help add new talent to your workplace, because every new hire is also a future colleague.
Put simply, networking is the same as making friends - just a grownup version. It includes doing well for yourself, being willing to help, being nice to someone without expecting immediate returns, and keeping in touch if for no other reason than enriching your life with a positive influence but secretly hoping that one day, some day events will conspire in your favor.
Careers are like songs. The skills you offer are like lyrics. Your contacts and credibility are like the tune. For the market to hum your name you need both: a tune with bad lyrics fades out, while great lyrics never get repeated unless the tune is snappy. Both take time to cultivate and sync. That is what networking is about.
Penelope and Eloise had a potentially friendship-ending fight at the end of Season 2 when Eloise discovered that Penelope had been behind the Lady Whistledown column the entire time, and things were not been resolved at the end of Season 3, Part 1. In fact, things have gotten even more sour between the two. Not only have they not spoken, but Eloise has taken up with Cressida Cowper (Jessica Madsen), who has always been unnecessarily cruel to Penelope. Meanwhile, if Penelope accepts Colin's proposal, she's interwoven herself into the Bridgerton family while keeping a huge secret from them.
Bridgerton is a romance series, so it is a foregone conclusion that Penelope will say yes to Colin's proposal, either in the opening moments of Episode 5 or at some point in the season. The season of Polin all but guarantees that the pair will make it down the aisle somehow, and we'll just wait to see what obstacles will show up before they get there. At some point, Colin will have to find out what his new beloved has been doing in her spare time, but we can also feel safe in the fact that he'll find some way to forgive her for the Whistledown columns. If the rules of the romance genre didn't convince us, the fact that Colin and Penelope end up together in the books would. The same cannot be said for Penelope and Eloise.
Penelope and Eloise don't have a falling out over the identity of Lady Whistledown in Julia Quinn's novels. In the book, Colin is the first to find out about Penelope's alter-ego and she tells the entire 'Ton before Eloise finds out. When the book's version of Eloise does find out, she barely acknowledges it. It's essentially a non-issue once Penelope outs herself to society.
Clearly, the show wanted to up the stakes, and it has. The first two seasons illustrate how close the friendship between Eloise and Penelope is. They understand each other like no one else does. They are smart and independent, and until this season, neither of them was marriage-minded. Colin has only just recently opened his eyes to how amazing Penelope is, but Eloise has known how special her best friend is for ages. And while the show's format demands at least one wedding every season, it does not demand that best friends make up.
There's also a question of whether Penelope and Eloise should make up. Penelope lied to the closest person in her life for two years. She wrote disparaging things about Eloise and her family. Even if outing Eloise's flirtation with the printer's apprentice last season was out of a sense of protection, Penelope cost her best friend the first spark of romance she's ever felt. You can't blame Eloise for being apoplectic about that level of betrayal.
Eloise also isn't innocent. There are many women she could have befriended in the ton, but she picked someone who has purposefully been condescending and, at times, downright mean to Penelope. She may be a wallflower, but Penelope has pride and Eloise spurning her to cozy up to Penelope's bully is not going to be an easy pill to swallow.
Every adult woman knows that few heartbreaks are greater than losing a best friend. You never forget it, but it is also a near-universal experience. Bridgerton is not obligated to mend fences between Penelope and Eloise completely, which makes the status of their relationship the most intriguing question of the series. If Colin and Penelope make it down the aisle (they will!), Penelope and Eloise will have to be at least civil to each other, but will they be the best friends that they used to be? It's not necessary, and it wouldn't really be realistic if they were. However, seeing the duo split up forever would be a tragedy.
Penelope and Eloise became fan-favorite characters in Season 1 together. We, as an audience, fell in love with their banter and the sisterly love they have for one another. It was especially endearing because Penelope's biological family often ignored or insulted her. Penelope never judged Eloise for preferring to read books instead of looking for a husband. They were each other's safe harbor. We don't know if they will find their way back to their best friendship, but it would be the greatest tragedy of Bridgerton if they don't.
Bridgerton Season 3, Part 2 will reveal whether Penelope immediately says yes to Colin's proposal or whether she comes clean about being Lady Whistledown. Meanwhile, we wait with bated breath to see what Eloise has to say about Penelope officially becoming her sister. That's the answer we want most.
Never Have I Ever is an American comedy-drama television series starring Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, created by Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher. Though it takes place in the San Fernando Valley, the show has been reported to be loosely based on Kaling's childhood experiences in the Boston area,[1] while Kaling herself has said it is based "in the spirit of my childhood".[2] It premiered on Netflix on April 27, 2020, and is about an Indian-American high school student dealing with the sudden death of her father and the bumpy journey through her last three years of high school.[3][4][5] The series has received critical acclaim.[6]
The series has been described as a watershed moment for South Asian representation in Hollywood and has been praised for breaking Asian stereotypes.[7][8][9] On July 1, 2020, Netflix renewed the series for a second season,[10] which premiered on July 15, 2021.[11] Netflix renewed the series for a third season on August 19, 2021,[12] which was released on August 12, 2022, and consists of 10 episodes,[13][14] and a fourth and final season which released on June 8, 2023.[15]
The story centers around Devi Vishwakumar, a 15-year-old (at the start of the series) Indian-American Tamil girl from Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles. After her father, Mohan, dies suddenly, Devi enters paralysis due to psychological trauma, making her unable to walk for three months. One day, in an attempt to see her crush Paxton Hall-Yoshida, she miraculously recovers and stands on her legs. After having a socially horrible freshman year, she wishes to change her social status, but friends, family, and feelings do not make it easy for her. Meanwhile, Devi's friend Eleanor deals with learning her absentee mother has been back in town for months with no contact, while Devi's other friend Fabiola struggles to come out as lesbian. Devi's live-in cousin Kamala tries to hide her college boyfriend from her family, as her family expects her to wed Prashant, an Indian man she's never met, in an arranged marriage.
The following year, Devi tries to deal with her grief, her identity, and school life. At the same time, her relationship with her mother, Nalini, becomes strained. Devi also has to deal with her feelings for Paxton and Ben, after she cheats on both of them with each other. Adding to the mix is a new entrant in school, Aneesa Qureshi. Devi starts to feel jealous about her popularity/dating her ex, Ben, and starts a rumor about her anorexia, but they make peace and become close friends. Devi also finds her mother romantically involved with Dr. Jackson and is upset that she moved on so quickly from the death of her father. Paxton gets over Devi's betrayal and the two become romantically interested again. Meanwhile, Kamala experiences sexism in her biology research lab. She grows close to Prashant before starting to dislike him because of his unhelpful advice.
Paxton doesn't refer to Devi as his girlfriend, and publicly refuses her when she asks him to the dance, which makes Devi think that he is using her. They later talk, and Paxton says that they cannot date publicly because Devi cheated on him. Devi agrees to privately date him, but she later changes her mind and breaks up with him. Paxton realizes his mistake and goes to the dance with Devi, apologizing to her. The two begin to date publicly, but Devi starts to feel insecure due to others gossiping about them. When Paxton has a friendly reconciliation with a girl he wronged in the past, Devi's insecurity turns to jealousy, causing Paxton to break up with her.
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