BJ Dichter

After school, if you didn't have homework or whatever, you'd be going out with your friends.

And there was a lot of that.

But then, you know, college, you're all kind of in the same place.

So that makes it really easy.

You're almost constantly with friends, at least your roommates.

But, you know, everybody that's around you, it's really easy.

But then.

Um, when you get into the workforce, it just totally changes.

And at least in my case, and probably many people's cases, your college friends are all over the country.

You know, you can't see them every day.

They're not in the same city as you.

And so how do you make friends?

And that I think is different for men and women, but probably also just for adults versus younger people.

Cause there's no natural way like there is in school to be like, Oh, let's, let's go out.

Let's have some fun type of thing.

And, um,

you know, in my case, like I said, we would have like happy hours after work on Fridays and things like that.

But that was always kind of artificial to me.

And it seemed more natural to just make friends with people that you were just on projects with or constantly spending lots of time with.

And it would usually basically be blended into work.