I write geek, therefore I drink?
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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My liver is doomed. It’s not my fault, but rather my career that is to blame it would seem. You see official government research has declared that be heaviest drinking professionals in England happen to be media workers, closely followed by IT professionals. And what do I do for a living? Oh yesh, hic, I recall now: I write about IT most of the time and for the rest of it I wear the IT consultancy hat.
So how bad is my drinking problem? Apparently I should be consuming around twice the recommended maximum of 21 units per week for a man. The Department of Health survey would have me drinking around 19 pints of beer a week in that case. The media profession out-drink the IT workers by some 10 units a week, which might explain why I don’t actually manage to keep pace with my official booze target. Heck, I’m lucky if I find time to get a decent meal let alone a decent drink.
Although it may surprise those of you who follow my writing output, I don’t drink and type. Considering that I work, on average, 10 to 12 hour days there really isn’t much time left to get off my face. Perhaps the real saving grace for my health can be revealed later in the same report which reveals that around a third of media workers feel pressured to drink by work colleagues. Thankfully I have none, being your typical self-employed freelance misanthrope banging away at a keyboard in splendid isolation away from all possible real world social interaction with people. I’m guessing that having a swift half with an avatar or Orc does not count?
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Loading ...Comment by - October 27, 2009 on 10:09 am
Hey Davey, thank you so much for sharing your story with us.. I really appreciate this, drink is really a very bad habit.. Drink is very harmful to health & also its very dangerous for our life so try 2 leave it..
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