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Today I am back for another installment of my Around the Coffee Table series. During the last post we discussed the millennial worker. Today we are discussing friendships post college. Earlier this week I was talking to my best friend that lives in Texas about making friends in the real world.

She moved to Dallas about two years ago and has struggled at finding true genuine friends in the metropolis city. A lot of the friendships she has made have been through work. Which is where I think a lot people find friendships post college. With constant after work happy hours you are bound to find friendships with co-workers.

But what happens when you leave that workplace or things fall apart with that friend. Then you are left thinking where are all of my friends. Well that’s what has happen to her. I think it has happened to a lot of us twenty-somethings. It has happen to me and that’s why I like to keep work and pleasure separate.

My advice to her was to get involved with community and young professional groups in her area that may have a lot of young people as members. That’s what I did. I’ve found a core group of girlfriends through my church small group and other groups I have been involved in.

If you are a young professional, how have you kept, maintained, and found new friendships post college?