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When academic or professional cohorts face competitive job markets

The four of us started in the graduate program together and became close friends, but now we're all job searching and one person keeps fishing for information about where others are applying while being secretive about their own process. The trust that held our group together is eroding and we're all participating in this weird competitive dance while pretending we're still just supportive friends.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You and your close friends are quietly competing for jobs while pretending nothing's changed.

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