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How friendships navigate career competition and jealousy

My best friend and I both applied for the same job and she got it and I didn't and now everything feels weird between us. We're both trying to pretend it's fine but I'm jealous and guilty about being jealous and she's happy but guilty about being happy and we don't know how to talk about it.

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