[taternuts]

The only good friends I've made and still talk to outside of college (and a few high school friends) were from a job I worked at for almost 4 years. I think that might have been the more important part of going into the office, at least for me, was you could potentially make some friends and get some social interaction. I'm thankful I had met my wife before the pandemic started otherwise this would have been even tougher. I've inherited a few of my wive's friends as well; but I think I'll have to do something like an old man's lacrosse or basketball league to make more friends, because I think it takes hanging out consistently with people to become true friends. I occasionally end up hanging out with a group of people I don't know and will get phone numbers to hang out again, but it's always awkward to actually follow up on situations like that.