Quote Originally Posted by Galen View Post
What gets me on a deeper level though is that almost everything about him is business-related in some form or another. This partly stems from his concerns about money and assets and things, but it also seeps into how he deals with people, or who he even deals with in the first place. Aside from one or two friends he's had since grade school, everybody he brings over for dinner is some sort of work colleague. He doesn't seem to really "get it" when I talk about the people I meet in my career and my relationships with them; his first reaction tends to be "well can you do business with them," never anything about how we get along or how well we like/dislike each other. He doesn't seem to really get that there's more to connecting with people than simply furthering one's own career, and if he does then it sure as hell isn't at the forefront of his mind when considering relationships.
This sounds a lot like a few sp/so people I know. They're not particularily interested in business (they all still go to school etc) but they often talk about ensuring stability in their (social)lives, building useful networks, taking care of childhood friends because they're already there and likely to be very loyal etc.. even the relationships they describe as very close often seem colder to me than the most distant friends of mine.