Lessons learned from applying for the same job as my friend.
One of the hard fast rules of friendship is never dating the same person as your friend. Everyone knows that the outcome only brings heart break for everyone involved. There is another rule that is slightly less known and unfortunately I learned the hard way. That rule is not to apply for the same job as your friend. I didn’t even realize my best friend was looking for jobs when I started my interview process. I couldn’t wait to tell her that I got an interview with an awesome company. Turns out she had an interview with the same company! How amazing, they had two openings and it was perfect, we could work together again. We studied and shared our tips and ideas with each other. It was both bonding and competitive at the same time, which brought up some strange feelings for us both. We didn’t entertain any negative outcomes, only the possibility of being able to work with each other again. Alas the interviews were extremely hard and we both bombed them,...