Title says it all: how much alcohol do you guys/gals consume on each day in a given week? And also, at what point in your career are you - I'm sure college kids are gonna have a skewed response so just so we can distinguish who's who, lol.
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VP in PWM - late 30s
I really don't drink that much on a daily basis. Glass of something with a client a couple nights a week at most.
Nice. How's PWM treating you?
PWM is great, especially since the market is more frothy. Actually able to have interesting conversations again.
Analyst. Occasional drink after work on weekdays if we get out early enough and feel like going out for a bit... Rarely ever drink casually at home... Friday / Saturday nights (rarely ever both) go out and drink a decent amount.
0, quit drinking a year ago
How does it feel? What led you to stop drinking?
feels good. I quit because I had one particularly bad experience and decided - no more
Mid-20s, probably average 3-4 per week but it’s more like 0 one week then 7 the next, just depends on what comes up
Perhaps 2 or 3 glasses of wine with the girlfriend during a week-day or some scotch if ever out early with colleagues.
If catching up with someone Friday, definitely a big one, maybe half a bottle. After that, just whatever is handy at home throughout the weekend after my chores for that day are done, pretty much having some sort of a drink in my hand in the latter 3rd of the day at all times.
Well aware that this sort of lifestyle is probably not for all.
When I was in Manhattan, I used to drink maybe like 4 times a week after work. My girl ended up leaving my ass because I showed up home every night at 11pm even though I told her it was part of the job, which was kind of bullshit excuse... eventually I stopped because honestly, I gained nothing from it besides spending 200 every night and gaining weight. I rarely drink now...
Maybe a cocktail or two with dinner every other week?
My main business partners don't really drink much either. Girls I date are usually not really drinkers either. I think this is a function of being on the west coast where people don't drink much. More likely to be drinking kombucha lol
Mid 20s/run a small PE group.
Damn, you must date boring girls lol
Not quite. Here you go my son:
I lol'd.
But c'mon. The "unicorn" section has got to be really boring, don't you think?
Not sure how old you are but if you end up working in a high stress environment, then you want stability everywhere else in your life.
I'm a college junior.
And dude, you make over $1,000,000 a year. You could literally be having one night stands every night if you want. You could go out to dinner and then hit the bars after work, and go out to lunch every day, and be driving an exotic car, and live in a nice house/apartment, and retire so much earlier. You could get anyone you want. Why settle for a boring girl?
That gets boring pretty fast. Much better to date an intelligent girl, live small and roll all capital into new deals.
But when does it end, though? Like, if you ALWAYS put all your money into deals and never take time to enjoy yourself, you'll die with all your money, and then what's the point?
The deals are enjoyable dude. There's stuff to life beyond pointless materialistic item collection. Working on a biotech co right now that can save lives VS buying myself a nicer car.
I'm only a college junior and I'm thinking of making a few thousand dollar investment into a stock I've been looking at. Would you say this is a smart investment move for someone in my position or should I be allocating my money differently?
I would allocate into whatever has the biggest learning opportunity so that way even if you fail you have upskilled significantly. Focus on minimizing losses while maximizing learning opportunity and monetary gain.
IE, IMO, it's better to have made $10,000 and learned a lot VS made $50,000 on a "dumb" bet in crypto or something where you didn't actually learn anything.
~10 drinks 4-5 nights per week.
this guy fucks.
get real needledicks. unless you're still an analyst (slave), you should be hitting the bottle more often, life is short.
depending on workload and when I get home, I'm drinking and toking constantly until I go to bed, usually 3-5 per week night, obviously more on weekends (brunch, golf, dinner, after dinner, back home, etc.).
I have been drinking like this for 10 years and somehow am in the best physical shape of my life (bloodwork too). maybe I'll spontaneously combust when I hit 50, but it's a fun ride while it lasts, plus no kids so who cares.
"no kids"
this guy gets it.
There has to be more of my demographic on here - recent college grad in NYC, 10-20 (who's counting) every Friday and Saturday.
Only three years out of school and I just cannot get work done while hungover anymore. Down to drinking 1 night a week on average probably at this point. 15+ or so drinks the one time a week I do go out though
Holy cow, 15 drinks a night?
Yeah I mean 15-20 is probably the range but I don’t wake up remembering the whole night typically. Still try to drink like I’m in college when I do make it out and the tolerance just isn’t there anymore. Need to re-locate that fine line between very drunk and blacked out. The hangovers and tolerance held strong for one year or so into banking and have fallen off a cliff since
mimosas at breakfast - 3-4 lunch beers - 2-3 hit the golf course/hit a brewery/watch the game with friends - 4-8 pregame - 4-6 out for 4 hours - 1.5 drinks an hour if you're not in the mood, as many as 3/hour if you are
total: 19-27 drinks
and that's not even an aggressive day where you're taking shots, drinking double margaritas with lunch etc. it adds up bro.
As soon as I hit 27, I started getting extremely tired the day after heavy drinking. In my early 20's, I could easily drink 20 drinks or beers throughout the day, get some sleep, and be fully functional.
These days, I need 12 hours of sleep after a light session, and will feel like shit the whole day. If it's a heavy session, well, then I've ruined the next 2-3 days. If I for some reason get hammered on a Friday, then I'm gonna be nursing a hangover 'til Monday...so that lifestyle is incompatible with work, at least for me.
But to answer the questions: Around once a month now, and it's usually on the lighter side. I get hammered maybe 2-3 times a year, and it's always due to hard liquor.
3-6 drinks/beers with friends/colleagues once a week+full night out clubbing Fri or Sat. Used to drink more heavily when I started out, but it wasn't sustainable in the long run. Going to bed later than 4 am ruins my whole weekly routine.
I’m 25. Rarely ever weekdays unless some sort of special occasion, but most weekends I’ll have drinks one night. 4-5 stiff drinks around happy hour time. Rarely out past like 10pm, more of a happy hour or early evening drinker. Granted it’s winter now, in the summer probably more. Vacations I drink a LOT.
hey finbrah sorry i know for a fact thats a lie. I pass by your apartment every night and thanks to your clear windows I see you sitting on the couch naked eating cheetos by the handful with a cold bear balanced on your stomach. LIAR.
24 years old. Don't drink on the weekdays unless it's a work happy hour or the rare Thursday night drinks if a friend's in town or a special occasion. On the weekends, it depends on if I go out or not. If i'm going out Friday and/or Saturday night it'll be like 7-8 drinks a night. Tack on another 5-6 if I'm doing boozy brunch. I'm a binge drinker through and through. Been cutting back because I'll wake up Monday mornings still not feeling right as I've been getting older.
I'm 25 an intern and I don't drink unless it would look strange not to. Last year I did an internship at an investment management firm and they regularly served champagne (not expensive) during work time for birthdays, farewell parties and before holidays. In the week before Christmas I had alcohol at the office each day. So I decided to only serve coffee at my farewell party. I also got two bottles of wine for Christmas (one from the company and one from the team).
not much drinking anymore
but last fri had bachelor party at a beachouse
I rode my bike to it (19mi), had about 8 beers, 6 shots of liquor, some pizza, hotub, then woke up and rode 19mi back in 15mph winds.....
I like beers after heavy workouts sometimes though when I’m just scrambling for calories. I had an ice cold Bud Light out of the tap after the Augusta half iron last fall and that was the best beer I’ve tasted in a while - so refreshing.
31, almost 32. During the week I only drink if I have a dinner with friend(s) or a date - so usually 2x a week and ~2 drinks for each of those nights. Weekends I usually have 1 heavy night/day (~10 drinks) and 1 lighter night (~4 drinks or 0 if I don't go out). Literally never drink by myself at home - it's all social drinking, but in NYC most social life involves alcohol. Still go to the gym 4-5x per week so have been able to manage the hangover/productivity loss better than a lot of other people my age. Some of my friends have a big night and are still feeling it 48 hours later.
I think my Net Weekly Intake divided by 7 would yield a mean betwixt an alcoholic equilavent of 3.5 beers per day. This is highly skewed however, since on the weekends (Fri/Sat) you have the potential to see significant deviation from a likely median of 1.
Something tells me you're not that fun to drink with
Eh depends on the day.
Early 20's, usually have 1 drink a night. Alternate between tequila and red wine.
late 30s, usually have 1 drink/night ~4-5 nights per week during week (typically scotch or glass of red). this is more of a heart health decision than a real desire to drink or relax (I'm already very relaxed).
I can and do typically go several weeks without a drop and then some nights if I'm going out on a rare date, will go up to 5 drinks, but I usually regret that. Very different from my mid/early 20s where I could put down 10 Vodka redbulls and be fine the next day. I'm an old fart now.
How many hours a week do you work?
Early 50s, usually prefer to vape or smoke nightly and generally I won’t drink on Sun/Mon/Tue. If I do, it’s usually 1 drink early in the week, then Wed/Thu/Fri/Sat are usually 2 drinks or more, especially if I go out. This Wednesday I was out with a friend and I had 2 vodka martinis. At home, I usually drink red wine, bourbon or scotch. Always have water or seltzer on the side… hydration is your friend.
Love beer, especially stouts/porters, but hate the bloat, so save that for when I go to an Irish pub and have a few pints of Guinness, or when I go to a Ranger game.
Vacation - all bets are off, I am good for easily 3 bottles of wine a day and a sizable dent in any litre of liquor that's around.
Went to the NY Whiskey Fest a couple of Saturdays ago at The Tunnel and even with all the tastings I did [20+, but granted they were not full shots], I kept drinking water as well. No hangover the next day, unlike the rest of the crew, who were all kinds of hurtin’ on Sunday morning.
Early 50s, and you're vaping? Lmao guess you never grew up, huh buddy.
He obviously meant vaping weed
you sound exactly as much fun as I thought.
50 yr old vapelord MD
If you guys haven't learned of NAC, that's a pretty big key to surviving a tough night of drinking, especially as you age and grow tired of monster hangovers.
Nac has entirely changed my drinking life. Be careful though. Read this to make sure you use it properly.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1386634605004766…
The take away is to take it a few hours before you drink, and not while you are processing/still processing alcohol. It can actually exaggerate liver damage in the latter.
If you’re hung over and didn’t take before, wait out the day and take before bed. Wake up feeling better than ever.
oh shit. thanks for that. For the most part, I've taken it before drinking rather than during or after. But good to know
deleted, didn't see replies answering my question
In any case, I think the dosage recommendations vary. I used to buy a brand off Amazon that would recommend take once three times a day. I couldn't find that brand when I recently bought it, so went with a new brand that says take once a day. I'm not sure what the difference is in the quantity of NAC per serving. But in any case, I'd space the first with breakfast, lunch and dinner regardless of whether I was drinking or not - read somewhere that it is good for health in any case.
All I Can
Gonna bump this once more
Right now, probably averaging 3 drinks per day - efficiently consumed in 2-3 time blocks per month. I've really been giving steady low-grade alcoholism serious thought. I think I could get by OK on a bottle of gin and 12 eggs a day. Just low and steady, morning to night.
Associate in PT:
Used to drink a lot more when I traded physical (lunch time, most evenings, etc). Since moving to derivs, have cut down aggressively (earlier mornings and all that). If I'm not seeing a broker during the week, will only drink on Friday / Saturday. Fridays will be quite heavy (several bottles, a few pints, maybe some cocktails). Saturdays more casual: few pints, maybe some wine over lunch / dinner.
Early 20’s:
Used to drink 2-8 drinks a day 7 days a week. Got really fat. Got into going out drinking and then solo drinking. Got really unhealthy.
Now I drink 1-2 drinks every other week. Just if I go out and feel like having a drink or two. Lost a ton of weight and no longer have those health issues.
Normal weeks, 1-2 times tops, big weeks (lots of work events/ social events, maybe 2-4 times.
I've noticed that when I have a girl in my life, the amount of days I drink goes up, but the quantity on each occasion goes down.
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