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A recently renewed acquaintance, Lishan in SF, made use to the phrase "drinking career".  Here I would like to openly draw a correlation to our working careers. 

As much as we don’t want to admit it, we all have drinking careers that parallel our working careers.  Working career by day, drinking career by night.  Our drinking careers and our working careers are typically linked by negative correlation.  For instance, achieving infamy in our drinking careers typically hinders our working careers.  Focusing too much on our working careers leaves little time for our drinking careers. 

There are exceptional one-way rules to this relationship.  When you excessively focus on a working career not of your liking, it may drive you to infamy with a drinking career to match, which will also likely ruin the undesired working career.  An effect perhaps subconsciencely desired.  However, your excessive focus on your drinking career will ALWAYS negatively affect your working career.

Mental ability and Physical ability.  In both your working career and drinking career, your mental and physical abilities are important factors.  The primary mental factors I mention are maturity and experience.  The primary physical factor is aging.  Maturity and experience will significantly improve your working career but slow your drinking career.  Aging will both negatively affect your working career and drinking career. 

There is no moral to this topic, but only to provide useless mental tickling.  But anyone who is interested in discussing this further, meet me at happy hour for martinis.  I’m buying.  My parallel career has fallen to neglect as of late.