Took a step back and realized that the only people I hang out with outside of work are also in the healthcare field 😂 I guess we just understand each other. Is anyone else in here like this?

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I don't have anyone else to hang out with except my wife. I wish I had friends.

I think it happens because that's where you spend your time and those are the people around you all that time. If you don't belong to a sport's team or a library book club, or some other group after hours, the only people you interact with are your co-workers. My best friends came from my 35 years of working in healthcare. They were all wonderful people and I kept in touch with some of them, but time has a way of separating people once they no longer work together. Getting married, having kids to raise, working full or part time..........all these things severely limit your social time, and if the friends you made at work aren't at the same stage of life you are at - like the years you are raising kids while they chose not to have children - you just seem to drift apart. I still keep in touch with a few of my best friends from my school years, but they all went their separate ways after graduation and built their own lives often in other countries, so other than the occasional text, there really is no contact. I've been retired for 3 years now and I have to say that they have been the loneliest years of my life. It's very difficult to "make friends" at this age. When you're 5 years old and you see a bunch of kids at the playground with their skipping ropes, you just run over and ask "Can I play too?". It's not like that when you're over 70 - people would think you are crazy if you just barged into the Social Room at the seniors apartments and tried to insert yourself into what they are doing!

Honestly same. I feel like I can just relate more to people who also work in healthcare. Thinking about it now, I hope that being in healthcare isn't my only personality trait... I mean we talk about a lot of other things, but I do feel like we talk about work quite a bit.

I agree. I think it's because I spend most of my time around people in this career. We have similar experiences and understand the ins and outs of the health care field. My husband works as an electrical engineer so we never talk about work related stuff. It's nice to have colleagues that are on the same page.

That makes sense. Most of my friends are my peers from college that I became friends with because we had the same classes and the same degree field. They are all still my friends now and we all work in healthcare.

Agreed!

I'm the only one in my friend group who's in healthcare.. I wish I had more friends who could relate!

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