Welcome to Seltzer Squad, the podcast about staying sober in the city with your host, Kate Sander and Jess Valentine.

Hey, Kate. Hi, Jess. How are you? Weird. How are you? I'm good. How are you guys doing? You can't answer back because it's a podcast. So I just hope you're doing well. What are we talking about today? We're talking about like drinking and work and work transitions and everything that comes with it, I suppose.

Yeah.

And adulting, yeah.

Adulting, basically.

So we both, well, you're a freelancer.

I work for myself.

You work for yourself.

Do you work with people sometimes?

I assume you must.

It depends on the job.

Gotcha.

I am a tattoo artist. So I work with people sometimes I assume you must. It depends on the job. Gotcha. I am a tattoo artist, so I work with

people. However, now I pretty much work alone. So at least for me, as far as drinking in the workplace,

you know, I work in a very different kind of work environment. We don't have, you know,

cocktail hours and stuff. I know a lot of

it's not corporate for sure. Correct. Yeah. I know a lot of startups will have like bars at the thing.

My friend Lindsay mentioned that the place that she works at has a fucking bar in it. And I know

another girl that had a Thursday happy hours. And I don't know how I would deal with that.

I'm sure when I was drinking, I would have been like, I have the best job ever. But now being sober,

I don't even know. Like that kind of irks me. I'm like, holy fuck, that's got to be so stressful.

Well, as a sober person, that would be really stressful. So luckily I I don't have to deal with that. However, there are obviously always work events, you know, Christmas parties, things like that, which drinking is prevalent. We have a whiskey decanter at my shop, which I wondered if that's what that was when I was there. Yeah,

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