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If he depends on getting rides from others, then...yes, I suppose he is.
Accepting help does not make a person a manipulator. In fact, as MDXer pointed out, often times the assistance is earned through ability, work ethic, etc.This ultimately comes back to the biggest key to success in your career. If you ask anyone who has a good job, they will likely tell you that they got it because somebody helped them. People who are successful in their careers have probably had lots of people help them.
I will agree that getting ahead simply by manipulating others to help you would be a skill all its own and can be done (most of us have seen examples at some point), but in my experience, this tends to become obvious in a short period of time and the person never makes it far. How many examples can we really find of people who made it far exclusively by manipulating others?Getting people to help you is a skill all its own. The skill of getting people to help you has nothing to do with your ability, work ethic, brains, passion, or talents. And how much people help you also has very little to do with how much you help others.
If you ask anyone who has a good job, they will likely tell you that they got it because somebody helped them
The skill of getting people to help you has nothing to do with your ability, work ethic, brains, passion, or talents
Jon M. Huntsman
I have worked with maybe 6 people in 10 years that if my company came to me and said "we need someone for a second developer position" that I would say here is the person you need to hire. More often than not I give them a list of people not to waste their time on.
The one thing you left out in your list is probably one of the biggest factors in deciding whether or not to help someone and that is reputation. If you have a solid and respected reputation then people won't mind helping you get the next job.