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⌈ Secret Post #2514 ⌋

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Re: I really like my coworker

[(Anonymous)]

Been there, shouldn't have done that.
As the youngest, newest employee, you MUST avoid anything that makes you look less-than competent. It's a sad thing, but for women in the workplace there's a LOT of judgement about who she does what with; if you start a relationship with a co-worker (even one who isn't your superior, even if it all starts after you get there, even if it's after he's broken up) people WILL gossip and WILL assume that you're using your sexuality to get ahead and you will be treated like crap.
SO:
What you do is manage the crush. You make sure you don't spend time with him outside work things. You make sure you find something to focus on on when you talk to him so that you can stay professional. You avoid ever being alone with him. Most important: You do your job, and you do it DAMN WELL.

The only way this can happen is if you manage to advance yourself in the company until you are both of equal status - and you make sure not to start things until WELL AFTER you have reached that promotion so it doesn't look like favoritism is involved. Or, since life is unpredictable, you find another, independent position.

As for the age difference, that depends entirely on how old you yourself are. (At 16 a 24 year old is too old for you; at 20, a 28 year old is your peer.) If you feel "too young" around him, chances are you're also not at a stage in your life where you will be interesting TO him. (Unless he's one of those creepy guys who LIKE a woman to be at a more vulnerable inexperienced stage in life; in that case run for the hills.)

It's hard, but tell your beating romantic heart that if there's truly something real there and not just an infatuation, it will last until you both get to know each other very well on a professional level, and until you're established enough and feel secure enough to approach it without getting into a huge mess with HR.

Good Luck.