I find that I am much more ambitious regarding my career than my friends. I work a corporate job, have a consulting business, and I’m getting my masters degrees.

I love my friends, their focus is just in different aspects of their lives and that’s awesome but I often wish I had a few friends who I could talk about career development, goals, etc with.

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If you're F, I notice ladies tend to talk less about what they're not good at compared to you and more about what they're good at.

So if they know you're more successful than them in career, they don't want to talk about career. If they know you're less successful than them in relationships, they want to talk about relationship more.

If you're M, I don't have enough M friends to provide a comment.

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I am F and I see this a lot. I do have friends of both genders, a fairly equal balance, and I think this is true of my female friends.

For me it’s just that no one can really relate. I have a career and a lot of my friends prefer to kind of job hop based on their schedules and interests at the time. They always have awesome stories but it’s just not quite the same vibe.

You can find people to talk here

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It's ok , diversity is nice. Just don't expect them to understand your lingo when you talk about work. Find another friend you can click with on this topic. I am the same but having both is really nice.

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You have colleagues to talk about work with, why would you want to talk about work with friends?

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That great, my circle wasn't diverse at all at that time. I actually think that may have been the problem . I'm working on expanding that circle now. A few of the OG friends aren't friends anymore they tried to fort w my husband! Prob why they couldn't care how I was doing in life. Live and learn. This is a good lesson of having real real REAL friends !!!

I can relate to this, which is part of why I like this app. Especially since earlier this week I had to explain to my friend that exercise science and sports management are not the same thing…

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Any peers in the same master’s program that you can befriend?

One of the things you can do is send a message to the class (or professor) setting up a happy hour. I did this at my firm because no one ever goes in and I’ve made a number of friendships that way

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