Your friend is already in a position many addicts/alcoholics would envy--he is employed. So, so many abusers have absolutely nothing. No job. No friends. No home, and no prospects. Plus he has already taken the first step before losing everything. He's reaching out. Praying for him now.
This can be a real double-edged sword though. We all have to eventually reach a point where we view the totality of our lives as being absolutely hopeless before we can truly begin to recover (and I might add that for a lot of us that time came some years AFTER we had our last drink).