Is your drinking disrupting your work
Work is often the biggest source of stress in our lives, and people sometimes end up using alcohol to relax and deal with that stress.
The result is often that your work performance suffers because of your hangovers. This makes it hard to concentrate, so you might well be feeling guilty.
Perhaps you’re also worried that your colleagues suspect you have a drink problem - can they smell it on your breath perhaps? So this creates even more stress.
Have you got to the stage where you feel the urge to have a little drink at lunchtime, just to calm your nerves? Or at the end of the day, are you watching the clock in the office, thinking about that first drink you can have once you leave work?
For some unfortunate people, alcohol becomes a part of their job - people in the promotions business, or staff in pubs, bars or restaurants for example. Then the two issues can be even more complicated. Business meetings at lunchtime or Friday afternoons can often involve a drink, it can be a source of bonding with your colleagues, or an important part of relationship building with a client.
So what can you do, if drinking is part of your work culture?
Is there any way your job situation could be improved so it’s not so stressful? Or is there perhaps another way to deal with that stress that doesn’t make the situation worse, like drinking does?
Give us your suggestions:
Wow…. Just work on not so much at one time you cant just stop at once you have to know when to much is to much. I believe in you guys….Good Luck
Hi Mike,
I am going through the similar things here, I was based offshore and was transferred to London, the different place culture and rest made me drink to stop the stress I lost my job and finishing at the end of the month because of the credit crunch. work in investment banking. how did you manage to cope with the stress, could you some advise as i have anxiety all day long. I am looking at opportunities offshore as well and have a few leads but I feel like I have to start all over again and it scares me.
Can you share some of your experience
I can’t speak for everyone as we are all different, but I have found that even weekend binge drinking can effect long term job efficiency. A decade ago I began working offshore in a ‘dry’ environment for several weeks at a time. This is the most successful job I have had. My mind became so active and I was sleeping very well. I could manage stress. I got laid off for a brief period and landed an office job. I started bingeing at weekends and my performance got worse…I was really unhappy. Fortunately I regained an offshore job and things returned to normal.