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Categories of my colleagues:
1. Ultra normal. Married, house, a dog, two children, thinks a week in Thailad is the ultimate vacation, career is everything, no passions, interests: TV, sports, and work.
2. Glassy sales type people. Always happy to see you and asks how you're doing, but it's obvious they don't care.
3. Educated better than thou people. Despises those who has less than one (or two) degree at uni, they don't seem to have read much though, except for what they had to.
4. Uneducated craftsmen/laborers. Despises all who didn't drop out of junior high, has never read a book, don't know how to use a computer/smartphone, proud of not knowing English.
5. Marketing people. They work with web pages, facebook etc but they don't really seem to understand what they are doing, so either things crash and/or turn out ugly and user unfriendly or they hire consultants to do the actual work, either way it ends up being expensive.

Then there's a handful others, of who some ends up hating me, some gets fired, and some I dislike for various reasons.

/Mats

Forgot bosses, who can be any of the above. But they also like to have meaningless meetings, collect statistics that they never use for anything, and they have a weird love for teamwork with post-it notes.

/Mats

I got those 2 degrees.

Read like crazy outside of having to.

And everyone I ended up 'working' with was either:
Actual work -
Scam artists who wanted me to be the fall guy for something nasty they were doing to someone. They scarpered one day. I had been working zero hour contract for them.

Volunteer work in sector which isn't meant to be voluntary -
Old bigots who had nothing better to do than stand around gossiping. Very judgmental. Hated intelligence. Hated minorities. Always moaning. Never did work. Made me ill with how judgy they were.

Volunteer work in charity shop -
Mostly decent people. Staff of about 12. 3 people I hate. One annoying person. The rest I either like or don't care much about either way.
My friend who I met there who was a nice girl & a reader. Working class disabled girl who didn't get by much in life.
One judgy old woman
One creep who assaulted my friend
Two creeps (the managers of the shop) who covered up for the creep who assaulted my friend. The straight one was into nudism & used to pose round the shop naked after hours then post it on his private facebook (my 17 yo friend who worked there saw it). The gay one was at least in his 50s, said that a younger (20 something) guy had taken him for all he'd got, meanwhile he's hitting on my 17 yo friend... (can't even remember if the kid was bi or not but he didn't welcome the advances...)

Work experience I did to get onto my MA course -
Nice middle aged ladies who just talked about cats & one gent who worked on the computer desk and also just talked about cats.

The first bit of volunteer work I did...
Decent couple. Genuine people who were eccentric. Sure they should've paid cash but... meh it was nice experience and I think they genuinely couldn't afford to pay cash. They used to pay me in vegetables and other fresh produce
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I'm starting to wish I had mum's skill of picking up the decent people (like the first couple, the people from the work experience, the girl friend and the lad friend) and weed out the bad ones & keep the decent ones for life. But I don't have that skill. I just vanish cos otherwise I'm stuck with everyone.

Yes, I agree. Even though I mainly had friends in elementary school and college, but not in high school and at university.

In work I was once lucky and my team was very funny, we hung out a lot. But apart from these people it was impossible to be friendly with others.

Nowadays I'm alone a lot and learned how to enjoy it. It's not ideal, but better than being with boring, annoying or bad people.