When I was a few years out of college, my best friend became a line cook at a restaurant at a reasonably high-end hotel. And the second he did, he stopped being my best friend.
This wasn’t out of anger or anything he did, mind. Rather, it was because the hospitality industry is one of the weirdest industries to work in. Every second that normal people aren’t working, you are. When normal people have free time, you don’t. From 4:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m., on all holidays, on all weekends – these are your peak hours.
When he made this jump, it was hard to stay friends with him, just because his schedule changed so dramatically. It was like he was living on another planet. And he made new friends – among the hospitality industry. Because they were the only other people who could really understand what his life was like now. They were his tribe.
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