The regular social circles of most adults do come from their occupations, simply because they spend such a large part of their waking hours there. There's nothi

The regular social circles of most adults do come from their occupations, simply because they spend such a large part of their waking hours there. There's nothing strange about that. If that's not the case for you, cheers, but empirically speaking, most people aren't lucky enough to have a vibrant and dynamic private and outside social life beyond work—least of all in the highly isolated, individualistic automobile landscape of America. And so, of course, it comes as no surprise that people look to work to fill a lot of their social needs, and that coworkers play a big role in not only their job, but their life satisfaction.