Networking without feeling pushy after 18 years as a delivery driver

I want to talk to people in a new field but I hate cold messages. I worry about bothering people.

I wrote three short lines: who I am, why them and a small ask for fifteen minutes. About one in four said yes.

Thanks for writing this out. I went through something close to it 8 months ago, and it settled down once I kept a simple log of every call and form.