Jealousy.

What to do when your friends are more successful than you are, or maybe just funnier and better looking.

Professional jealousy is a real thing, and pretending it isn’t will not help you cope with it, ensure your happiness, or get you better deals. Failing to acknowledge and resolve it when you feel it will, however, tend to alienate the very colleagues whose acquaintance you should be cultivating, because if you stay in the industry those people are going …