Networking Events and Professional Communities in Sofia (as Told by a Ghost Hunter Who’s Seen Things)

sofia’s networking scene is haunted. not by actual ghosts-though trust me, I checked-but by that weird energy of people pretending to care about your "brand" while eyeing the free rakia shots. let me explain how this works when you’re someone who hunts specters for a living and accidentally stumbles into coworking spaces.

first off, rent here is *€450/month for a haunted-attic-turned-studio near Serdika station. the job market? 80% of my ghost-hunting gigs come from paranoid AirBnB hosts on the r/Sofia subreddit. the other 20% is me taking blurry photos of "orbs" for tourists on TripAdvisor’s Vitosha Mountain page.

weird pro-tip: the best networking happens at 3 AM in the crypt of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral (free entry, bad Wi-Fi). I met a blockchain developer there who swore he coded faster near "lingering energies." locals warned me:

"avoid the ‘techbro sunrise yoga’ meetups-they’re just MLM schemes with kombucha."

current weather? the sky was doing that thing where it can’t decide if it wants to cry or give everyone a sunburn. closest escape is a 5-hour drive to Belgrade or a €40 flight to Istanbul (where the ghosts are louder but the coffee’s better).

overheard at Skaptobara Craft Beer Bar:

"the expat Facebook groups are 50% dystopian rants, 50% desperate pleas for secondhand IKEA furniture."

truth. also, "networking" at Sofia’s Underground Comics Festival gets you further than LinkedIn here*-I landed a gig scanning 19th-century cemetery records for a graphic novelist.

final drunk advice: carry business cards that say "I see dead people" as an icebreaker. works every time.

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