>If the boss is coordinating beers on Friday nights, it's pretty hard not to feel like your career will suffer if you don't participate. If you are forced to d

>If the boss is coordinating beers on Friday nights, it's pretty hard not to feel like your career will suffer if you don't participate. If you are forced to do these things, then your career is already suffering. A career is not a hypothetical future promise of a nirvana-job. It's the thing you live throughout your life, every moment of it.