“I’m a Customer Engagement Program Operations Director with a pharmaceutical company. I started working there twenty years ago. At the time, it was just a temporary position. I was writing standard operation procedures to ensure FDA compliance. It was boring and technical, but I was trying to become a theater director and needed the extra income. I remember looking at my coworkers, and thinking: ‘I’m not one of them. I’m just here to make money and leave.’ But I moved to a full time position after my daughter was born. I didn’t want her to be at the mercy of me wanting to become an artist. Soon I no longer saw myself as different than my coworkers. The sense of ‘other’ disappeared. I realized that nobody saw themselves primarily as an employee at a pharmaceutical company. A few years ago, the company gave us a survey to test our morale. One of the questions was: ‘Do you have a best friend at work?’ Everyone laughed at that question. But I do have a best friend at work. His office is down the hall and we’ve seen each other every day for ten years. And that does make a big difference in my life.”