Do you consider your co-workers to be family?

Many of us spent the holidays getting together and bonding with family. Maybe it was the distant aunts, uncles, and cousins, that you never see or worse yet, the husbands,wives, sons and daughters that you should have seen so much more of.

Some of us work so hard at our jobs that we rarely have time for the people that we love and when we are with them, we’re still thinking about our jobs. That time is going to our other family, our workplace family.

Every year on a major holiday, I’ll send out a heartfelt group text to my co-workers calling them my “radio family” simply wishing them happiness on that holiday.

These are the people I fight with side by side striving for the common goal of success. Growing up in Union City, my life was all about the neighborhood, we stuck together and had each others backs. I treat my coworkers the same way.

Jobs, like life, are all about relationships. When Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie spoke after firing head coach Chip Kelly, he spoke about hiring someone with “an open heart.”

When Tom Coughlin stepped down as head coach of the New York Giants, he spoke of the bond between himself and his players.

Even if you may hate your job you’re still part of a group that you’re spending major amounts of time with and fit in with in some way.

How close are you to your co-workers? Do you consider any of them “family” or is it like the old saying “Your friends you can choose. Your relatives you’re stuck with.”

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