A coworker passed this link around the office yesterday with the title of "duh." I wasn't aware that media people were the heaviest group of working drinkers. But oh yes we are -- at least our British counterparts are. According to The Guardian, people who work in British media put back more than four bottles of wine per week.
That number is likely lower in America simply because, as ex Brit-pat Toby Jones put it in his book How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, we're not into as deeply into the pub culture on this side of Atlantic. Plus, it's tough to blog with a hangover.Media workers are the biggest consumers of wine, drinking on average
one and a half bottles a week. They are also the biggest drinkers of
spirits, liqueurs and shots, taking on average 3.2 measures a week... People
in the profession also drink 10 units more a week than the next
heaviest drinking professionals -- IT workers, who are closely followed
by service-sector workers at 33 units, and people in finance, insurance
and real estate at 29 units.
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