I would also not befriend someone just because I thought it might get me a job.
However, as I go through life meeting people, I always try to befriend them, unless I really don't like them. That's just the way I am, it's the way I've always been. I've got a couple of friends in the industry, and quite a few more people who I'm on friendly terms with even though I may not count them as friends. Many of these I met when I was a humble PPL with no commercial aspirations whatsoever, so the idea that they might get me a job one day never even occured to me when I met them.
FFF
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