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To break daily routine? I find it dull when I do exactly the same thing day after day.

Yeah but you can do something better than playing table tennis with the people who happen to work for the same company as you.

Take a dance class. Become a volunteer firefighter. Deliver meals to the elderly. Join a choir. Play darts down the pub. Join an ultimate frisbee team.

Lots of people like offices for the social connection. That’s cool, but if you can’t get that social connection outside an office it’s a problem you should do some work on.

You could as well live in mountains and meditate all day instead of working. I hope you agree that's all pretty subjective.

I’m not trying to make a statement about the relative subjective value of each activity. I’m trying to make the point that in order to build resilience and capacity into your social life it’s important to have a diversity of connections.

If your entire social world would be brought undone by losing a job, that’s a problem.

Oh man, this is so true. I hate when people bring coworkers to hobbies, because then their work drama shows up elsewhere. I had an RPG player call me in tears because another player had fired them and they didn't feel coming to RPG night anymore. My coworkers are good for the occasional beer and that's about all I'll ever ask of them.

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