The Crisis of my Friends is an ongoing documentary series that is exploring the impact of the economic crisis in Spain on the culture of work in this European country and particularly on the lives of a certain group of Spaniards, my friends. For a generation of Spaniards who were born around the time the dictator Francisco Franco died (1975) the idea of work as a means for personal fulfillment differentiated them from previous generations. That view of work carried with it a view of life and society. The crisis has caused a recession in the way my generation views work. My friends, all in their late thirties and early forties have come to view work as a privilege and not a right.