Jennifer Brick: There are three friends that you
need to make a work and one you need to avoid,
like the plague. If you are ready to find out who
they are, tap that like button, and let's just
jump straight into it. The first friend that you
need to make at work is obvious. And that is your
career bestie. This is a friend at work that you
trust. This is the friend at work, who is an
actual real life friend, that even when you don't
work together, you are going to stay the best
friend's work can be incredibly stressful from the
actual doing the job stuff, to navigating the
politics, dealing with bad bosses dealing with
gossip in the office, all of that kind of thing.
And your career. bestie is going to be someone
that helps you get through it, they can be your
confident who knows exactly what you're going
through, they can be your sounding board when you
need it. And they can even be the person who talks
you off the cliff in the middle of the day during
a coffee break when you need it. And while I
generally think that coworkers are not your
friends, and that most of the friends that you
meet at work are really situational, they probably
won't be your friends for life, your career bestie
is going to be someone that you stay in touch with
and really enjoy their friendship for a long
amount of time, the next friend that you need at
work is your career crush. Now, this doesn't mean
to be someone that you have like an actual
romantic crush on. It's the career that you aspire
to have. But it's embodied by a person, this can
be one person, it can be multiple people. And the
great news with your career crush is it doesn't
even need to be someone that you personally know,
it can be someone that you know, on LinkedIn or on
YouTube, like myself, or it can be someone that
you actually have encountered, and you get to work
directly with, in my opinion, having a career
crush is really important. Not only is going to
show you that what you want to achieve in your
career is possible, because this person has
achieved those things. But they're also going to
be people that you can emulate and admire to help
you find your path to reach the same level of
career success, I'd love to hear Do you already
have a career crush, let me know in the comments
who it is. And this leads me to the third friend
at work that you must have. And that is your
career competitor. Now I know competition has a
negative connotation. But remember that
competition is also a great motivator that can
help push you towards your greatness, you might
already have a career competitor, they're the
person who's at a similar level to you has similar
levels of ambition, maybe even a little bit more.
And when you will look at them as succeeding, it
really motivates you to go out and be successful
to either because you want to keep pace, or you
want to outrank them. Of course, we want to keep
this in the healthy side of things. And we don't
want to like to test our career competitor or
anything like that. Hopefully, this is also one of
our friends at work. This might even be someone on
your team that you have a little bit of a career
crush on, because they're doing so good on a
particular thing. And ultimately, having a
positive professional relationship with your
career competitor, where you're both inspiring and
motivating each other through that healthy sense
of competition can be something that really helps
you both up level and accelerate your careers. And
this leads me of course to the friend at work that
you don't want because this work friend is not a
friend at all. And this person is the sole reason
why my video coworkers are not your friends is the
top video on my channel. And that is the career
wersi they are the exact opposite of your career
bestie they're going to get in your way, they're
going to be vicious, they're throwing you under
the bus your career worst, he does not want the
best for you your career worst he wants to drain
you down to their miserable awful level, I hope
that you don't have a career where St. But it
might not be totally up to you if you do, because
let's face it, it's really up to them. If you are
dealing with a career where isti the most
important thing that you can do is make sure that
you're maintaining professional boundaries, so
that all of the kind of toxic co worker behavior
that usually comes along with having a career
where STI is really mitigated and minimized as
much as possible. And now brings me actually into
a bonus tip for you that I have this video for the
friends at work that we want to cultivate. You
might be wondering, where can I find them? Where
can I start building those relationships? know
some of these career friends are going to be
within your company like your career. bestie is
probably someone that you work with, but your
career competitor might be a personal friend or a
friend from college and your career crush can be
anyone but if you do want to cultivate a personal
connection with any of these friends at work that
you need to have, you need my non girls guide to
networking. Go and check it out right here right
now. And I'm going to walk you through the steps
of how you can actually find these people and
start to engage with them. If this video helps.
You figure out what friends you need to work on
which friends to avoid, let me know by giving it a
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already and my friends I will see you in the next
video. Bye for now.