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Monday, October 09, 2006

Drinking promotes career advances!

Drinking promotes career advances!

In our Sparta newspaper was an article stating that drinking promotes career advancement for women more than men. It demonstrated that women make 14 percent more of income and men 10 percent more by drinking.

I thought about the whole idea of what the editor was trying to say, but as I kept reading the article, it basically told me that I should drink in order to have a better job. Yes, the editor did mention what others thought about the study done and the effects of drinking socially. But never did any other research to verify the facts on this study done.

As I kept reading, it sounded like the study she read about was mostly on networking, although it focused more on "drinking" as the key to having a better career.

I started to think and went to research on drinking socially. I found one study done by Brown University Digest stating that they observed non-drinkers and socially drinkers. The drinkers had slow memory, their reflections were slow, and after having 100 drinks within a month they showed signs of slow brain functions.

So how could "drinking promote better pay?” as the editor used for her heading. It only provokes your body to have serious consequences in the end after drinking so many times within a month; provokes slows Brain functions; risks incurring a DUI that will automatically cost you more money for drinking and driving. It may also result in some becoming alcoholics and losing their jobs in the end. The study also made it seem as if women use their looks and drinking to obtain a higher percentage of pay or career advancement.

Articles like this really make me think about what journalists write and if they actually do research. Perhaps they are under such pressure to write something within a given time that they simply repeat facts or agree with an article or just write whatever they want.

I just do not know anymore about people being so ignorant on the side effects of alcohol and that this study if telling students to go ahead drink all you want, network but make sure you are holding an alcoholic beverage in your hand if not you will never have a promotion or career advancement in your job.

I do not believe that people are still ignorant about the side effects of alcohol. It seems that this story suggests that the study is actually saying students should go ahead and drink all they want rather than network. Or it recommends you make sure you are holding an alcoholic beverage in your hand or you will never have a promotion or career advancement in your job.

My point on this article is that alcohol does not promote career advancement. I feel that the editor misleadingly title her article to give the wrong impression about the subject matter. Also, women do not make more money than men do by drinking alcohol at a network event. I feel journalist should start to do more research on topics they write about before publishing it.

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