The alcohol probably has something to do with it, booze makes it easier to be cheerful and flirty and have patience with the stupidity that exists in a free chat room. Please remember that the feeling doesn't last, however, and that goes triple for someone who has had alcohol problems in the past. You know this. Persistent alcohol use results in very different emotional/psychological effects than does an occasional night of drinking. From what I've seen, chicas who chronically drink in order to work become train wrecks very quickly.
If you've had issues in the past, stay the fuck away from booze, seriously. Even if you hadn't, it's dangerous to get into a habit of relying on alcohol for work. Habits can form through chronic usage even without a strong underlying predisposition to alcoholism. Not everyone who drinks frequently will become an alcoholic, but those that do won't realize it until after they've developed a psychological and/or physical dependency. In your case you know you have problems handling alcohol, please don't think this time around will be any different.
One last drawback to using alcohol frequently at work (and I mean more than one or two drinks over a span of a few hours a few times a week) is that it prevents us from consciously analyzing which techniques bring in money vs. those that don't. To thrive in this business over the long term we need to know what works and what doesn't, and to adjust our game as circumstances change. Alcohol destroys that process.
In the short term, alcohol use can increase earnings, but over time your earnings will drop, you will lose paying customers and you will have no idea why. You'll be stuck with the habit but you'll have lost the $$$$ that was the entire reason you started drinking in the first place.
If guys love seeing you drink, fill a vodka bottle with water and go crazy. They won't be able to tell

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