Conventional wisdom says you shouldn’t.
But what happens when the people you work with become your friends? What happens when you treat your team like family?
What happens when your clients become close friends? What happens when you’ve been working together so long and so closely that you feel like family? When you argue like siblings, but respect each other enough to stay in it for the long haul?
Maybe there’s some merit to the idea that people that are already your close friends or family shouldn’t be hired or taken on as clients. There’s something to lose already.
But when you start out as strangers and work to become friends or (like) family, there is so much more to gain.
Just food for thought.