Wait, does he send long emails himself?

Man, 200 apps and nothing? That's rough but I kinda wonder if referrals are really as magic as people make them out to be. Like yeah Dana helped you out, but maybe the bank was just hiring hard that month and any warm body with a pulse got a call. I've seen folks get referred and still get ghosted, so it's not like knowing someone is some cheat code. Not saying it doesn't help, but one good outcome doesn't mean the whole system is rigged toward referrals. Timing and luck probably matter just as much as who you know.

Reminds me of when I bought a used car and the previous owner had set the radio to always skip the first 10 seconds of every song. Drove me nuts for a week until I found the setting buried in a menu somewhere. Point is, weird defaults sneak up on you, and you just get used to them without asking why. Same thing with speed settings, you get used to the chipmunk voices until someone points it out.