So you landed up with your dream job and thought this is it, but every once in a while something happens that makes you realize life as a professional is quite capable of sucking at times. These are some of those realizations that everybody faces at an early stage of employment. Give a read, and be assured you're not the only one.

1. Your colleagues are not your friends.

So you're just out of college and you think your workplace is like another spot for making those lifelong friendships. An advice, make friends at workplace but�do not expect them to always take a stand for you and believe in all-for-one and one-for-all philosophy like it used to happen during college mass bunks and detentions. In the end, everybody is here to earn money. Remember that!

2. Your friends shouldn't be your colleagues.

Well, this is the other side of the same coin. So you and your best friend must have planned to work together and might have even succeeded in securing jobs at the same organization�but then, does it remain the same any more? Friends to colleagues is really not a promotion in relationships I'd say, because at some point of time, you will be placed against each other and the 'Dharma Sankat' will