Hacked or Thank You Viagra!

My yahoo address book was hacked into today and everyone in my address book received a personal offer from me inviting them to buy Viagra from Canada.

Not good.

When people receive annoying things from you, whether they are actually from you, they react in different ways. Some want you to know you got hacked so you can take care of yourself. Others demand that you stop sending them stuff like this and others scold you in a guise of caring. Odd.

But always the half full guy that I am,  I did what I could do and then I proceeded to enjoy the odd side benefit of it all which was hearing from old friends and colleagues.

I kid you not, in this rough economy, getting hacked is networking!

I heard from a Sr. Recruiter at Disney about this Viagra thing. I have never met the guy, but I have contacted him in the past for work. So I wrote back,

"Dear ____ Now that I have inadvertently sent you a Viagra ad, why not reconnect for work?! If you have ANY leads in New York for me (or thoughts, suggestions...) I would greatly appreciate them.  I have attached my resume so you have a current one.

If I got a job because I got my computer hacked and sent out Viagra ads as a way of networking, that would be the greatest story ever!  Thank you, Patrick"  

Good, eh?

I also heard from my most excellent therapist in Los Angeles.  And she is going to be in New York and we are going to meet for coffee and a session.  Thank you, Viagra!

I am a big proponent of if you don't think you matter try crossing a street and if a car stops then you have been noticed school of self improvement.  Now I am all about hacking for networking.

Next: the made up, market-directed hack.