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Working for any company is a "job", and not a "family" as many have found out in the last few years (but happens at every downturn). It's hard to draw a line, between personal and professional identities, but it's something I feel everyone should do.

Corporations simply are built to amass profits, and outcompete others. They do not care nor are they built to care about you.

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Friends are friends and business is business. If you get it confused, you will stay confused while the world moves on. I noticed most people are confused. You serve for your paycheck and then you are forgotten. They don't ask you what you spent the money on. Your reward is the package they gave you. Best to make friends in areas of life where that is the goal.

The concept of family varied quite a lot over times and cultures, there probably are some that fit. Medieval families are quite different social constructs from modern first-world nuclear families. Heck, and if anything - family abuse is, sadly, a very real thing, too.

Same for the companies - they vary, a lot. Working at a two-person startup can resemble a family to some extent (or, well, there are genuine family startups, where partners in life start business together, and some succeed), but large corporations are entirely different experience.

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