* Disclaimer * This isn't a very beneficial post in terms of you learning anything valuable, so read ahead only if you have several minutes to possibly be entertained. I'm not all business all the time, so I'm just giving you the warning ahead of time in case you are and may consider this a waste of your time. I do care about you.
My younger brother and I attended Carb Day at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Friday (basically a big party and a concert featuring STP this year), and since it was raining we went over to my friend's house nearby the track. Everyone there was around my age or older, so my younger brother was the only college student attending. He's going to be a senior and he's 21 so not too much younger, though.
I was driving and he was not, so the amount of beer consumed by him was much greater compared to most of the other people there who were also driving. He was out of control and pretty entertaining, and realized everyone else was pretty sober and justified it by saying "Well, you're career people." When I dropped him off at his apartment he was telling his friends about the party and free keg and how all the career people weren't drinking much. I tried to justify it by saying that it's only 5 PM and the night is young. They didn't buy it, and I might as well have been wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase.
So, we who are out of college and employed are no longer young professionals. We are career people as viewed through the eyes of drunk college students (just one so far). And for the record, the career people matched his level of partying, possibly surpassing it, later that night when everyone hung up the keys for the day.
