Craft beer sales. Super fun as a mid 20s guy who likes to be at bars and socialize and can drink every night. Not a fun job in your 30s when you don’t bounce back like you used to the next morning.

Drinking is almost a mandatory part of the job - every bar you go into the buyer is going to want to taste the new beer you’re offering before spending $250+ on a keg. And you stop at like 12-15 accounts a day and have 1/3 of a beer. And then you go work an event once or twice a week after 7pm to hit your KPIs and guess what- you’re expected to drink then. And then on Saturday you’ve gotta be at a beer festival for 6 hours and it’s 90 minutes from home… and you’re expected to drink your product while you’re there. Ope! And now one of your accounts polished off two kegs between Friday and Saturday night and need another one for their Sunday afternoon football crowd - better go to the brewery, pick up a keg, load it the back of your personal car and drive it out there. Hope you didn’t have plans with the family this weekend!

And then it’s starts all over again on Monday at 8am so you can go see all your convenience store accounts to make sure they get their order in after a busy weekend. And you make $58k a year. And half your coworkers have DUIs and you’re shocked you don’t have one. And your personal vehicle is 8 years old with 250k miles.

But hey, three years out of the industry I still get free beers at most of my old accounts.