“My partner's a teacher. Of my ten closest friends, probably seven are teachers—and they’re not people I know because I'm a teacher.”
“The frequency with which I am in a group of people where more than half of us are teachers and we don't know each other from work—it happens all the time. And I have some close friends at work that I feel like I can have real conversations with. I'm guessing age is part of this as well. I can imagine if I were in a place where most of the staff is thirty years older than me, it would feel much more isolating. But where I teach, a lot of the staff is more or less my age, so there's a sort of friends atmosphere.”