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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
This is absolutely false. There are exceptions, but drinking with lawyers is fucking miserable. They cannot and will not talk about anything other than work--whether they're complaining about it or are desperate to discuss something they think is interesting that is surely not.
Brokers are the worst fucking people in the world. And I will leave a bar at which they congregate in numbers superior to 2. They are dumb as rocks, think they run shit, order to impress instead of to enjoy, talk at the top of their lungs, and are almost always douchey white dudes with slicked back hair. The worst.
Tech people don't bother me as they are very easily tuned out.
Blue collars are okay until the subject turns to politics at which point I almost always need to beat a quick exit.
Bar industry and service workers are the second best group to drink with--they know what they want and can hold their liquor unless they have decided it's going to be a blackout night and even then they're pretty fun.
But the number one group of workers to drink with, by far, is teachers. Those motherfuckers let loose. They are funny, uninhibited, and (often) smart.
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I'll definitely endorse drinking with service and bar industry workers. Good hunk of friends in this arena. I don't even pretend to try to keep up.
I drink with a lot of academic medicine types, engineers, o&g people, marketing people, and architects. I don't drink with many lawyers. And usually it's just a mix from various professions who don't talk about work much.
The worst I've ever endured was an evening with mortgage bankers in the early aughts on a trip to Hawaii put on by their bank. Made a free trip to Hawaii almost not worth it, and I've avoided the entire profession (aside from the one friend who took me to Hawaii with him) ever since.
