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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Sounds like you're confusing your work life with your fun/personal time. Like some sort of Stockholm victim to your workplace. You need work life balance and interactions outside of work. Work is not socializing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It's hard making friends as an adult though (read: people have kids or other dependents), and the most meaningful relationships I've had have been where we've all been bonded under the same circumstance. Yes it does sound Stockholm syndromic, but as someone who doesn't actively seek sociability by default, being automatically inaugurated into the company of others is a huge passive social benefit for me.

Work is definitely socializing by sheer osmosis of being around others with common goals

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Unfortunately this stance is not uncommon. There's a lot of people out there for whom work is the main or even the only social connection they have.

There's a lot of loneliness in such statements.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

I agree, but I'd argue that these are isolating times and that my story is more the norm than the exception