I meant > a lot of them distinguish between "friends" and "friends from work", except engineers, developers, and data scientists as in my experience is the pe

I meant > a lot of them distinguish between "friends" and "friends from work", except engineers, developers, and data scientists as in my experience is the people who don't distinguish between the two seem to be very STEM focused. I'll get drinks with coworkers after work, but it's still very much "drinks with coworkers". My friends get to place demands on my time that coworkers don't, and I'm willing to accept a higher level of frustration with coworkers than I am with my friends. For me, they're different relationships, and I always want to know which one I'm in. I never want to fire a friend, ever.