Got a job, lost some friends
July 19, 2017 (Wednesday) After several months of trying to find employment and getting rejected by hundreds of firms, I broke into tears of joy after receiving an offer letter to intern at a private equity firm. I immediately called my parents who were at work, and they were extremely thrilled with the good news.
About two hours later, I notified my friends in a large group chat that I got the internship. There were many congratulations, but when it came to my closest two friends, only one of them called me up and started congratulating me and said we should celebrate.
July 20, 2017 (Thursday) After one day, I noticed some of my friends stopped talking as much to me. The only one that remained the same was the best friend that called me. The other best friend, who would text me all day, started to limit contact drastically. Additionally, I witnessed a lot of passive aggression from my friends, including the terrible best friend mentioned earlier, who were on the same course as me but did not land anything. Of course, I was sad at first, but I'm happy that I went through this event. It really weeded out all of the friends that do not really care about me. Their envy of me getting the job made them dislike me -- who needs these kinds of friends?
Anyone else go through something similar?
"Success is a lonely road"
it's shitty that some of you're friends are acting like that, but it's also only been a day apparently. Wouldn't be too quick to cut them off just yet
I'm not sure if Emily Copperwood is your real name or a reference that I'm not getting, but you should probably change your picture and name.
Keep the job and get new/more friends. People are naturally jealous, and there's not much that you can do about it.
In my most humble opinion and in a non-sexist way, I tend to witness this less in guys(more internal locus and don’t harbour the pagro approach)
And chill – its just an internship, but good job on getting there though. Its not easy and I must applaud you for applying to so many firms!
I would wait at least a full week before writing off my friends as having ditched me.
kids these days...
iMessage convo: 7:00 sent 7.01... 7:02...
DID THEY DIE OR DO THEY JUST HATE ME RIGHT NOW
chill tf out
This is highly accurate (and I hate that I do it too)
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