A Journalist - he wrote for tons of newspapers and magazines and wrote literally thousands of articles.
A Writer - he wrote a lot of books and won the nobel prize for literature. If you look at the amounts he was paid and put them in today's terms, he was quite a successful writer.
A Soldier - Sandhurst grad....fought on the Northwest Frontier in Afghanistan/India. Fought in the battle of Omdurman and personally gunned down 3 dervishes who were charging him with his mauser C-96 broomhandle, fought again in South Africa during the Boer War and made a daring lone escape from a POW camp dodging a bounty on his head, fought again in the trenches in WWI as a Battalion Commander.
A politician - served in Parliament for several decades and held just about every cabinet post before becoming prime minister. His accomplishments in each of the above would have been a perfectly reasonable career for a man - and he did all 4.
He drank a lot. He wasn't a drunkard. He wasn't out of control with it. It didn't stop him from accomplishing a tremendous amount.
Sir, you are drunk!
And you, madam, are ugly.
But tomorrow, I will be sober.