1. Be related to someone powerful or a decision-maker.
  2. Be in a romantic relationship with someone powerful or a decision-maker.
  3. Be a close friend of someone powerful or a decision-maker.
  4. Be related to someone related to someone powerful or a decision-maker.
  5. Be related to someone in a romantic relationship with someone powerful or a decision-maker.
  6. Be related to a close friend of someone powerful or a decision-maker.
  7. Be in a romantic relationship with someone related to someone powerful or a decision-maker.
  8. Be in a romantic relationship with someone in a romantic relationship with someone powerful or a decision-maker.
  9. Be in a romantic relationship with a close friend of someone powerful or a decision-maker.
  10. Be a close friend of someone related to someone powerful or a decision-maker.
  11. Be a close friend of someone in a romantic relationship with someone powerful or a decision-maker.
  12. Be a close friend of a close friend of someone powerful or a decision-maker.
  13. Be very talented, extremely ambitious, and incredibly lucky.

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7 responses

  1. I suspect that most of us don’t have the strategic luck that is currently prescribed; we’ll have to make our own luck!

  2. Cristina Graziella Avatar
    Cristina Graziella

    That’s the right recipe!

  3. Jane Woollestone Avatar
    Jane Woollestone

    Hope number 13 works for Stargate xxx

  4. “It’s who you know”

  5. What about being really really good looking?

  6. StarTrekIsBetterThanStarWars Avatar
    StarTrekIsBetterThanStarWars

    Hollywood… Who you know, and who you blow. Like how politicians work. Joy. How likely is it do you think that we actually apply enough pressure to get you guys reinstated? Have you heard anything?

  7. As my folks used to say (ruefully), “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know.”

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