I’m not an engineer by profession but am building a consulting practice solo. The main concern I have is whether solo work is training me to deprioritize frien

I’m not an engineer by profession but am building a consulting practice solo. The main concern I have is whether solo work is training me to deprioritize friends/friendships. Sometimes I think yes, sometimes no. Especially as a male with all the commentary these days about how men don’t know how to be friends and do things with each other. But on the other hand, I’m never stressed by someone’s end of day or rush request or anything like that. I am the least stressed for the longest period of time that I can remember. Easy to forget for the benefit of other things but I think it is so important. So I do bounce things off my clients. They pay me. So we talk quite a bit. And I’ve found lots of other folks doing what I’m doing. We collaborate, share, and commiserate as much as we can.