True that is the hard part. I think I got my break way back from helping a coworker help their parents small business with their computers for like $50 under the table. Turns out they knew someone and I got an in running network cabling. Snowballed from there and within a few years I'm doing on site tech support for a company that was paying my junior college too with enough customers which ended up being more connections when that job went bust.

I guess my point would be the connections can come where you don't expect. I won't disagree that's still a brutal part of it.