RULE TO BREAK
“Stick with your own kind”
When I was in my early twenties, I worked for a while in an industry where people came from all sorts of backgrounds. Seventy-year-olds from the rough end of town rubbed shoulders with 20-year-old toffs. Thirty-year-olds were often in charge of 50-year-olds. People with top degrees hung out with others who had left school at 16 without two decent exam results to rub together.
It was wonderfully liberating, hugely educational and enormous fun. It’s easy to spend most of your life with people about your age, who do the same kind of thing you do, and have similar interests away from work. But while friendships with these people may be easy, they’re also, well… easy. It’s far more interesting to spend some ...
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