Do entrepreneur's fit in?

**StephenMLevinson** · 12-31-2010 10:12 PM

Hi,

I've never really stuck with a single group of friends. I never fit in with any cliques for too long. Is this common? I saw a video on this site that said that entrepreneurs usually don't fit in with cliques. I don't have many friends, but there are a select few friends I really fit with. So I would say I have fewer quality friends from multiple groups than a large group of friends.

Just wondering what everyone else's experiences are. Keep in-mind I'm extremely extraverted and have no problem making friends or talking to people. But at the end of the day, I don't have a group of people to hang out with. I usually hang out with the select friends group.

**KyleXY** · 01-01-2011 12:41 AM

Note: I'm going to respond base on personal experience so please take with a grain of salt as I'm sure it doesn't represent everyone else per say.

In my experience, growing up, I did a lot of hopping around from "clique" to "clique" aka different groups of friends. This happened all through middle school (jr high) as well as high school. That doesn't mean I didn't have a dedicated group of friends, many of whom I became close friends with from childhood (even since elementary) and have remained friends till this day. However, I didn't hang out with them on a regular basis. That didn't change the dynamics of our friendship.

Once I got to college, things started to stabilized a bit but I still made friends that were from different groups of people. Didn't really matter.

Now to answer the question. Is this normal for an entrepreneur? I think it's not that you're an entrepreneur that makes this happen. I think this is totally YOU that makes this happen. Being an entrepreneur has nothing to do with being in different circles of friends. How do I know?

I still maintain several different circles of friends today but my regular group of friends, the people I frequently hang out with now, are entrepreneurs but that's mostly because entrepreneurship encompasses a large part of my life at this point. That doesn't mean I don't make time for my non-entrepreneur friends nor does it mean it was the reason I jumped around early on. Afterall, I wasn't an entrepreneur growing up (at least that wasn't a part of my life). It was more of a personal thing and it definitely wasn't because we didn't get along or have different perspectives in life. No such thing existed. I just liked being around all sorts of people. That was it.

If you don't have a normal group of friends to hang out with, that's a personal cause (aka you did that), not a reason (aka don't blame being an entrepreneur as the source or think that it is).