Do you really need to have friends at work? I think you do….I recently read two articles one said, yes, you need friends to feel engaged and the other said NO you don’t. It was interesting I read that there is a decline in “friendships at work” from the ages of 50 – 55…they say it is because you are generally higher up in your career and you are busier at home, so don’t have time to foster relationships. I have met some of my closest friends at work. I even met my husband at work, but I haven’t had a great “work friend” for close to 10 years. Guess what, I am 50. I know that I personally feel lonely without a work friend, but now 50% of the people I work with (in my department) are the ages of my kids….YIKES!!! Also, sometimes when you are the last to come into a department all the relationships have been formed. I have been at this job for more than 90 days, I can go 7 hours of the day without anyone stopping by to say hi….it can get lonely, but then again, I don’t say hi to them either… LOL…I want friends, but I don’t want to invest in them. I like the ones I have, and I am in the “FU fifties”, I worry I might blurt something out and piss people off, then I will never have friends. HAHAHAHAHA…