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Re:Why making friends as an adult is hard by pavel_lishin on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @11:08AM (#42509423)
> Having to have everything scheduled weeks in advance is utterly exhausting and incredibly anxiety inducing to me. If I didn't already have friends I could do spontaneous things with, I'm not sure how I'd be able to have any sort of social life at all. I certainly am not alone in this, even if I'm a minority.

I feel similarly, but I don't understand how working at the office solves this problem. Are you saying that you mostly socialize by spontaneously going out after work with coworkers? Or that your you and your friends work in the same general vicinity, so you can text them near the end of the workday, and spontaneously go do something together?

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Re:Why making friends as an adult is hard by thrw42A8N on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @05:23PM (#42511573)
Not the OP, but yes. All my friends are former and current coworkers.
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Re:Why making friends as an adult is hard by SansGuidon on Friday December 27, 2024 @10:39PM (#42528367)
Same here, I guess because I'm such a nerd, I have more affinities with like minded people that I often met at studies and at work. Other connections are fine but I'm not sharing the same dark humor and geek vibes with them. With WFH I still go to the office everyday and the people who I only see once a week seem too distant to me and we dont know each other very well.
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