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Originally Posted by CorneringArtist
I burned out of my initial career plan at 22, and it put me into a position where I was pigeonholed into the career I transitioned my existing skills from.
Social setting is disconnecting from people who I thought I got along with, and never being able to pick up from there because it shot my confidence and self-esteem to pieces. Every time I try to make a new connection, I talk myself out of maintaining it because I remember what happened before.
I've kept it up through a need to make money, destroying myself mentally by faking that everything is okay, and a nicotine addiction.
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I feel like you're not alone on this though. Most people I talk to seem to tell me that their social lives have suffered as they get older esp into late 20s and 30s because of competing priorities like work, partners, children, mortgages, etc.
I personally think it's ok not to be hanging out with your friends all the time.