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Carolyn Hax: ‘Angst sponge’ tires of friend who can’t keep a job
Comment on this storyComment Adapted from an online discussion. Dear Carolyn: I am 31 and doing well in a middle management career I enjoy. My college friend has spent the decade post-graduation struggling from job to job with complaints about how every job has terrible people, and unfair rules, and every other thing that is not her fault. Okay, eventually I may have gently pushed back at her instead of just being an angst sponge, and now she’s mad at me that I was only 80 percent supportive with her last firing. The common denominator to me is that she is not adaptable at all and is her own worst…


