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YOU (in the non-personal sense) may make your job an important part of your identity. But I would ask you to ask yourself the following questions - "What do yo
by phlipski 3y ago
YOU (in the non-personal sense) may make your job an important part of your identity. But I would ask you to ask yourself the following questions - "What do your close friends do for a living? Does what they do for a living matter to YOU?
Does what they do for a living in any way affect your relationship?"
I ask this as a thought experiment because I personally believe that we THINK people care about our jobs more than they really do. True friendship should (and does) transcend "jobs".
Maybe I'm an outlier - but I believe most folks just want to have a good time with their friends - specific careers be damned!
- p1esk 3y agoI might not care about what my friends do for a living (I do though), but I definitely care a lot about what I do for a living.
- kodejka 3y agoI think that attitude also changes when you lose a job, especially at some FAANG. When you work for FAANG everyone you ever knew, want to be your friends all of a sudden. When you are laid off, then they don't want anymore. :) In a way, works like a filter - true friends stays, but you discover how little of them you have (and that's perfectly normal).
- eru 3y agoI worked for Google for a while (2014-2017), and I did not share the experience you describe. Granted having Google on the CV looks good to recruiters, but my friends didn't care that much.