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From: dmd2@pyuxd.UUCP (D Dennee)
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Subject: Life After Graduation
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Date: Mon, 22-Sep-86 10:26:42 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 22 10:26:42 1986
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>Does anyone have any thoughts about the differences between a school
>environment and the work environment as far as meeting people goes?

Oooo...that's a toughie.  In school, everything is so social and everyone
is trying to make new friends (i.e, pool a whole bunch of freshmen together
who don't know anyone and of course they're going to be eager to develop
some relationships/friendships like they had in college).
Though some work environments offer various clubs and activities, not
all people are lucky to work in that sort of place.

Anyway, I can sympathize.  Sometimes I think I had it a bit tougher
than a college-grad entering the work force.  I plunged headlong into
a corporate environment at the ripe-old age of 17.  What made it worse
is that I found myself living in a different state than the one I
spent the last 17 years of my life.  Even WORSE was I was from a 
super-small farmtown where I had attended school at the same school
(Copenhagen Central) from Kindergarten thru my Senior year and graduated
with people (85%) that I'd know since Kindergarden (sp?? whatever).
O.K...so finally I had to split up with my 53 classmates (we had a big
class :-)) and START COMPLETELY OVER!  Needless to say, the first
year was purely awful.  I got along well with my co-workers, but
I felt about knee-high to everyone which made me a lot more shy than
normal.

2 yrs later and I still don't feel totally comfortable with work as
being any type of social place.  I played on a softball team and
tried out some other activities but I still feel a little "out of league".
My solution to meeting people was to chose to live in a college
town (New Brunswick) where there's an abundance of people closer to my
age. (but then again, I feel a bit different from them to, since they're
in school and I'm not).  That move made my life change from miserabel
(whoops..another sp. error) to fun.

I know I didn't come up with any real answers to the problem, but
it sort of hit home and I had to post SOMETHING! :-)  I'd be interested
in reading what others might consider solutions to the previously
posted question.

Micci