Many networking events exist outside your Home! That includes weekend breakfasts, cocktail hours, and after-hours gatherings for conversation and usually food and drinks with friends (new ones).
Successful people are willing to step outside their comfort zones in an effort to meet new people regardless of any professional circumstances surrounding that effort. Therefore if you want to go higher in life you must not be nice to yourself, step out of your comfort zone, go out there.
You should not necessarily be interested in meeting people to land new sales or find a new employee instead, they simply like talking to people and meeting people, and success naturally follows them from there. The wider your network of contacts is, the more opportunities you'll have down the road.
So be the outgoing person to make up your network of opportunities
