After-hours socializing can help boost worker camaraderie and advance workers' careers -- and experts recommend that everyone occasionally attend

Why you should make the effort.

signals you're a team player and helps you control your reputation at work.

"Don't jeopardize your job for a $5 beer."

Just because alcohol is served at most happy hours and after-hours parties, that doesn't mean you have to drink

Watch your mouth

Try to listen 75 percent of the time and talk just 25 percent of the time.

Leave with everyone feeling they know you a bit better but that you aren't that different from the way you are at work -- which is professional, good-natured, hard-working and respectful.

The bottom line: Happy hours can be a great way to get ahead, but save the tequila shots for a night out with friends.

People working in jobs they hate, feeling trapped because they can’t quit as they rely on that sole source of income to finance a lifestyle tailored to escape their grim reality, drifting aimlessly in life, in short, leading lives of quiet desperation, as so eloquently put by Henry David Thoreau.
Why don’t they just quit their jobs and pursue what they love to do you ask?
Two Reasons.
Reason #1: They don’t know what they love to do.
Reason #2: Fear. They’ve got a lifestyle to uphold, bills to pay for, families to take care of, fear of no steady source of income, fear of what other people might think or say about them, etc. Fear.

These are just two reasons why we just can't quit our current job in order to do what we really love to do. Find out more HERE to read and know "How to Find What You Love to Do" and get out of your pathetic lives spending whole day in the four corner office and still not happy of what you are doing on that job.