Partner Track Character Rachel Teaches 30s Do Not Decide Your Future

Rachel Friedman played by Alexandra Turshen in Partner Track touches on so many themes at the same time. Friedman is raw compared to others in the series. She falters so many times but faces her problems bravely.

Friedman has a depth of multiple mature themes, ranging from voicing sexism, almost 30 career crisis, and dating a younger man in office. Rachel's character is jam pack emotive bumpy ride.  

Rachel Friedman: Let's touch upon 30 career crises

Most people live a life, which is nothing but a prototype provided by society, only credentials are changed to make it subjective and user-friendly. People accept the dream given on the plate. Prototype mostly starts falling apart in your late 20s or 30s, once they realise their calling. If one thinks of quitting a full-filling money-minting job, then friends and family make you re-think life decisions. The world tells you it is too late to achieve it. Friedman dismisses the 'It is the too late notion' in the series.  

For Rachel Friedman's character, it's not too late, though she is yet figuring out her passion. Friedman showcases that it's okay to do what you don't like. But change when you concede it and execute pursuits step by step. Friedman is not someone to quit and live a hippie life. She weighs her options and takes them slowly. She teaches us to find a life want to live forever, but for that have stability. 

Friedman is on top of her game as a litigator but loves nothing about her job. She is not a whiner but lacks a competitive quotient like Ingrid. Rachel's life comes crumbling when she meets Wujay. Following Wujay and her shenanigans, she realises how unhappy she is with her life. Wujay is a DJ turned business person. Rachel's character is affirming making huge life changes, instead closing doors. It doesn't matter world may look down upon her. Keep trying instead of throwing life away, over a few choices. Women are often told the 30s is family time. Thinking about having a different career starting from square one is a bad idea. Marriage or not marriage is still a start fresh is challenging. With major setbacks too, rather than diving into a self-loathing mode, looking into other opportunities, orients Rachel. 

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Partner Track's Rachel Friedman Smashes Sexism  

Partner track took the right track while addressing sexism. Rachel is white but still faces biases for her gender. Along with her friends, she battles workplace challenges to break through the glass ceiling, all the while balancing her personal life. Rachel's Dialogue. When Men f**k they are celebrated, Women are just f***d. It shows the intensity of workplace discrimination. Despite, such discrimination Rachel doesn't let anybody play her.

Never afraid to set her male co-workers straight if need be. She gives befitting replies to sexist comments of her counterparts at the workplace. But like any ordinary woman, she is terrified of revealing her office romance, which can jeopardize her career. 

Office romance takes us to Rachel's love interest, who is younger than her and a paralegal. Here, she breaks stereotypes of the dating elder man. Women are often not allowed to love younger men. She doesn't give much weight to the world, but at the workplace, Friedman does. 

Rachel's character carefully nudges us to rethink our notions of tightly sealed career plans and workplace romance. She refuses to settle for what is on the plate. Instead, trying to fill her own plate with things she likes. Thus, challenging the modality of the so-called men's world, which deprives a person of making choices of their own.