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Wed, 25 Feb 2015 18:05:14 GMT

I find it interesting how work and leisure is not separated. Importing leisure into work sounds like discussing work related things at parties, apparently it suggests being really enthusiastic for that work, it is not something done just for the money.

There's no good reason to pick work for which one isn't at least partly enthusiastic for skilled and smart people in Western society.

Even when nobody who was at our last LW meetup in Berlin works at the same company 5/7 people did talk about work in a way that influences their work in a meaningful way.

Importing leisure to work, hm, it sounds like having a really trusting employer :)

Building friendships with your coworkers is good for the employer.

BTW my life experience is mainly Europe, but all over it - post-Soviet, UK, "can't hear you over our No. 1 quality of living" type of stuff in Vienna in Austria, etc. etc. very varied. This kind of thing - doctors befriending engineers, having no idea what each other do - happened a lot of times.

Just because some of your friends do have other professions, doesn't mean all of them have.

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