Resources
Resources for leaving an alcohol-centered career.
Practical writing on sobriety and career change, professional identity, and rebuilding work that fits the life you want. New articles are added slowly and carefully—useful over plentiful.
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The Exit Readiness Checklist
A short set of prompts on income, transferable work, identity, and your next step—for anyone weighing a move out of alcohol-centered work.
About the free checklistTopics in progress
What we’re writing about.
These are the themes future articles will cover. Nothing below is published yet—join the list to hear when new pieces are ready.
Leaving an alcohol-centered career
When the work and the life you want no longer fit—and how to plan the exit.
- — How to know when your career is working against your sobriety
- — How to leave the alcohol industry without knowing your next career
- — What to do before leaving an alcohol-centered job
Career reinvention
Starting over professionally without starting from nothing.
- — Starting your career over after sobriety
- — How to identify transferable skills when changing industries
- — The difference between a bridge job and a destination
Identity
Who you are when the job title that defined you is gone.
- — Who are you when you leave the career that defined you?
- — Why career change can feel like grief
- — Separating self-worth from job title
Workplace culture
Drinking norms in wine, hospitality, and beverage work—and healthier alternatives.
- — When drinking is part of the job
- — How leaders can create healthier alcohol-centered workplaces
Personal experience
First-hand writing from the founder’s own transition.
- — From building wineries to starting over
- — Why I had to leave the wine industry
What’s next
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