Hi,
This might be a little strange but it’s worth a shot. I’ll preface this by saying I have a healthy long-term relationship and friend group: 5 “close friends” that I see at least every month / month and-a-half, along with ~10 additional friends I see and keep in touch with throughout the year. I am not lonely, but instead I suspect I am lacking someone to share the “desire to build something” with. An example: I saw a post earlier today on Reddit where there was someone looking for another person to keep them accountable while they did door-to-door sales. That’s the best way to describe this potential friendship / working relationship. I’m looking to find something similar and hope that there’s someone else out there that could mutually find a relationship like this valuable.
Essentially, we keep each other motivated, hype each other up during successes, and share and strategize during “low points”. I imagine it would be someone in a similar life-position, happy with life, hungry for more, building something such as a business, nonprofit, maybe a network? Probably owns a home or three, out of their college / party phase, 27-45 years? Travels a bit? Seeing others achieve success doesn’t make them envious, but instead motivates and makes them feel genuinely happy for whomever achieved it. Seeing others fall down triggers a brainstorming session on how to best work through it. Someone who’d be down to go to a coffee shop or coworking space, and work on something separately, but with the comradery aspect.
Is this something that maybe is unrealistic? I am unable to connect with my fiancé on this part of my life, and she suggested I go to Meetup events to see if there are like-minded people there. I am signed up for several meetups now that covid is over, but they seem to be heavily tech-oriented which is fine but I’m running a warehouse and traveling quite a bit so it’s not necessarily the same… but I am still giving it a shot.
I am unable to connect with any of my friends on this part of my life. Each of my current friendships are valuable, but not motivating in this “bucket” of life. The closest relationship I have in my life like this now is with the CEO of my day-job, but he is obviously focused on running his company and is at a later stage of success… as well as life.
TLDR: Where can I find a friend to share the success and failures of a start-up, that is also in the “same-boat”? I have people that genuinely care about me, and I care about them, but that’s not the same as understanding and going through the experience.
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