No matter the industry, I think I would have always had a drinking problem, because the common denominator that I used to justify to myself all the time and that many threads here on SR are based around is "I need alcohol to deal with stress at work"!!
Until I finally accepted that it was my addiction and not my work life that was causing me to drink, and I took my own responsibility in sorting it out I began to make some headway in my Sobriety!!
There are though some professions that maybe have more of a drinking culture associated with them, but that one guy for religious reasons you mentioned, we can all be like him and not drink despite what's going on around us, it can be done!!
