I think there is a very intuitive way to overcome going to work hungover when you want to go out for (many) drinks after work: don't go out for drinks after work. Its not so much how many drinks you have or how drunk you get, but more of a function of how late you will be out and how early you have to get up.
Last night we hit Parish Cafe, maybe my favorite spot in Boston. I got there at about 9:30 and had 6 beers over the course of 3 hours. Not a little, but not enough to get me drunk. We got home at about 1am. This means I didn't get to sleep until about 1:30am. My standard wake up time is 6:35 (to allow for the previously mentioned double snooze). That means about five hours of sleep.
As I've mentioned before, I barely function without eight sober hours of sleep, so there is no way I feel human after a few drinks and five hours. Even if I only had one drink last night, it still would have only been five hours of sleep. This zombie-like trance I'm stuck in is only avoidable with a reasonable bedtime, which is near impossible when mixed with post-work cocktails.
I'll just have to go back to taking the weeknights off and doubling my consumption on the weekends.
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