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WHEN my mate and I were growing up we talked about getting rich, buying fast cars and attracting great women.

I always assumed he had my back and would help me out and allow me to share in his destiny.

We were such close buddies I never imagined he’d leave me behind or deny me anything.

After we left college I went to work with my dad and he started in a bank. He went from job to job before finally starting his own business.

These days he’s rich and influential but doesn’t care about me. I assumed he’d give me a job and pay me a vast salary but it hasn’t happened.

Any time I call him he’s always too busy to speak. I think he’s also blocked me on Facebook.

Even his brother says he’s too big for his boots. What went wrong?

JANE SAYS: It’s really disappointing that you feel your friend has let you down, but you can’t honestly expect someone else to carry you. Life doesn’t work like that.

Your friend has taken one path while you’ve taken another. Of course you had boyhood ambitions when you were growing up together, but when reality kicks in, dreams tend to go out of the window.

Try not to be bitter or to take his rejection personally because you can’t spend your days looking back.

If he isn’t interested in being your friend or staying in contact with you then you need to scrape together your dignity and make your own luck.

Work out what it is you want from life and make things happen.

You can learn from his determination, work ethic and drive and equal him in success.