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How engineering partners navigate diverging professional interests while preserving friendship

The three of us graduated together and started this electrical consulting firm two years ago and we're realizing that we have completely different visions for what kind of work we want to take on - I want to focus on renewable energy integration, Sarah is passionate about industrial automation, and Mike keeps pushing us toward high-margin residential projects. We're good friends and solid engineers but we're starting to bid on projects that none of us are excited about just to avoid the conversation about what we actually want to build together.

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You and your partners want completely different things but won't talk about it for fear of ruining the friendship.

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