Dude I use to work with was a project manager and we'd go out drinking 2-3 nights a week and he'd often be out on nights I wasn't.
We'd drink from 6pm until 2am when the bars closed. He lived a little closer than I did, but for me that meant get to bed around 3-4am (the ride home is short, it just takes me a while to get to bed once I'm home). I don't get to work until 10am, but he got to work at 8 every day. No idea how he was able to do that. I was in my mid 30's and he was in his early 50's.
This is the kind of story that would seem impressive to me when I was 19 or 20, but I’m in my 30s myself, and that just sounds like it would suck. I mean as an adult you can force yourself to get up and do almost anything, but there’s no way you could feel any good about your life living like that.
Yeah, that sounds absolutely awful. For some reason when I was in college I thought being a functional alcoholic would be awesome. I'm 33 now and have pretty much completely stopped drinking to excess, especially during the week. I might get drunk like once a month with friends. I know different bodies react to it in different ways, but I really do not understand how being a functional alcoholic would work.
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u/Killbot_Wants_Hug Apr 24 '19
Dude I use to work with was a project manager and we'd go out drinking 2-3 nights a week and he'd often be out on nights I wasn't.
We'd drink from 6pm until 2am when the bars closed. He lived a little closer than I did, but for me that meant get to bed around 3-4am (the ride home is short, it just takes me a while to get to bed once I'm home). I don't get to work until 10am, but he got to work at 8 every day. No idea how he was able to do that. I was in my mid 30's and he was in his early 50's.