Do you work?

[Nochowderforyou]

hi,

I was just wondering how many smokers here do the grind mon-fri.? If you don't, how do you support yourself?

I'm just curious. As a person myself now looking for new employment, I'm curious to know what my fellow tokers do for a living.

I, used to move boxes around a warehouse. Exciting, huh! :rolleyes: I did a 4month stint with a partner in a personal business, but that was only temp.

So tell me, what do you do?

[cannabis campbell]

I get weed for free, get the money from my mum and dad lol saves me paying for it!

[JR77]

I work the daily BORING grind - 9AM - 5PM. But I know someday I will be independently wealthy and won't have to work anymore!! lol

[insanity]

I work most of the time, but right now unemployed

[Wesley Pipes]

i work, as a labouror in a fish factory, not the most glamorous place to work but it pays well, £5.40 an hour, 7am till 7pm when we're busy, if we're not busy we finish at 4:30 pm (anytime after 4:30pm is overtime, time and a half :D). We been pretty busy lately and have been finishin at 8 pm most nights.

I only just started back there last week, it's seasonal work so it's pretty much a temporary job, which sucks.

Peace :rasta:

[Nochowderforyou]

See, I'd love to work by the water. Even if it involves fish gutting all day. There's no ocean or water here though. Just the oilfeild, and no thanks. I choose happiness over money.

[Big Calhoun]

9 to 5 office office job...well, 7:30 to 4:30 or thereabouts. Pay is good, the work can be hell (mentally), and appreciation around here is nonexistent. For not having a college degree, I did alright.

[Binzhoubum]

I work seven days a week at the moment teaching ESL...I make $12.50 an hour but the work gets a little mind-numbing sometimes.

But once you get used to it...its one of the easiest livings known to man for my standard of life.

But actually I don't plan on being so lazy for my whole life...I am trying to start a sourcing service for small businesses in the Midwest. :smokin:

[MaryJaneScott]

i used to draw pictures on cake with icing.
all the free cake you can eat.
i bet i have written "happy birthday" more than i have written my own name.

NOW... i make clothes
and people buy them
and i use the money they give me to buy things like:
apples
books
the occasional beer
running shoes
crickets (lizard food)
and concert tickets

[SmokingPlatypus]

I'm still in college, but I work as a student worker. Basically, I move boxes all around campus and drive the truck. It's pretty fun, easy, and I get decent pay.

[robert42]

i work shifts so i can work any day of the week

currently im working wed-sun 10pm - 8am the nightshift on my own!

Its horrible lol

i also work 9-6, 2-11, 7am-4pm

I like my job thought :)

[Kilo0192]

Yeah been working for years now. Got bills to pay... Damn-it nah but I am a chef at an Italian Resturant. I's not bad there management smokes so I'mgood to go lol. Stoned going in, stoned going out!

[orangeman]

I work, but I'm only 16 so I dont do that gay minimum wage stuff. I cut grass and get paid plenty. If I could only find some one to supply me I could probably buy alot of herbal now :D.

[BloodAngel]

I've had 4 jobs since I was 15 (I'm 2 months from being 18)
I keep getting fired for stupid shit or shit that's not my fault.
Right now I'm unemployed because my dad forced me to live with my mom a few hundred miles away, (because he found my weed), so.. I've been looking for a job here

[orangeman]

I get weed for free...

Lucky bastard :mad:.

[notech]

I've worked since i left school. . . .

All of thirteen years ago that was. . . .

I've done various things and even managed

to finish an apprenticeship in sheet metal work. . . .

And for the last four years i've been self imployed

in the distribution industry. . . .

I recently invested a lot of money

in a new lorry. . . .

But i must admit that i am happy with

the way things have worked out for me so far. . . .

And i would'nt want to have things any other way. . . .

I'm at a stage of my life where i know what direction

things are heading in,, i've got two great kids and

a partner with whom things could'nt be better. . . .

So here's to the second half of my life. . . . :thumbsup:

Peace. . . .

~:) ~:) ~:) ~:) ~:) ~

[BloodAngel]

a new lorry. . . .
As an american, I've always kind of felt a brotherhood between us and England...
But the words you guys say sometimes makes me laugh...
Don't take it personally though, I make fun of american people with southern accents and such too... :P

[notech]

As an american, I've always kind of felt a brotherhood between us and England...


But i'm IRISH. . . . ;)

Peace. . . .

[Tillianne]

I used to work in Vet medicine and Pharmacy before I became disabled.

Now I am on disability.

[3rdEyeVision]

I dont work and dont really get allowance anymore cause my mom wants me to get a job(im 16), If I wasnt in school and stuff thuogh I'd go tree planting, you can make so much money living up there planting tree's.

[4252]

Bet your ass.... without self realization, you're nothing. I run a tool & die shop.

TR

[Its a Plant]

Yup, gotta work. I work in a hospital kitchen, with mostly old ladies and creepy, almost elderly, virgin men. There's a few young guns though, haha. It's only part-time, cuz I need me a degree (almost 1/2way there) and I play sport.

[birdgirl73]

I'm an executive speechwriter for a big high tech company, and I generally work three days a week. Sometimes more if it's busy. It's a job that pays very well, and I went to college and graduate school to learn how to do this sort of work.

In two weeks I'm saying goodbye to this job. Two weeks after that, I'm starting medical school at the ripe old age of 44. It's what I've always wanted to do, and now's a good time since they accepted me. I'm starting to get very nervous about the big changeover. But for the next eight years or so, school and/or residency will be my job. I can freelance-write if I want to make extra money, but fortunately my husband is successful and so I probably won't do that.

[JuggaloAtTheDoor]

work on mon n wed.. only 8 hrs each

[jamstigator]

I don't work any 9-5 grind, and haven't since...mmm...1989 I think. During those 17 years I wrote software and operated a programming-related website which produced decent ad revenue. But that grew tiring (believe it or not), so now I'm working on writing, and have no income at all. Fortunately, the woman believes in me, and she makes plenty of money and keeps us in good stuff while I work on my writing. ;)

[rainbows.rsexy]

its against my religion

[vballgrl420]

i work at the Fall City Grill how exciting i know. Im a busser ( AKA.. a fuckin slave) just kiddin i like it the people are nice and i think i'll move up to waiting when i turn 18 in april hopefully

[The Figment]

I work in a balloon factory,I run a pair of presses that make those mylar balloons for Hallmark That say "Happy Birthday" or "Great Job"! we do custom work too,if any one goes to a Toytoa Dealership in the next few weeks and sees those oval shaped balloons that say "Toyota Nationwide Sales Event" I Made Those!!
And for the two thousandth time...No I Cant get any Mylar To Line The Walls Of Yer Growroom!!!:D

They gave me a Raise today...Yay fer Me!!!

[WeedLovingVeteran]

Well I have been selling a complete array of drugs exept the harder shit....crack, smack and meth for a bit of time and that has sorted my cash problems out.

Now all that has stopped and I start work on monday changing and correcting data on a massive database for my area and Im only 17 and I will be earning something between £220 and £290 a week so Its pretty good. Im just gonna get a bar of skunk and toke away.

[Binzhoubum]

I'm an executive speechwriter for a big high tech company, and I generally work three days a week. Sometimes more if it's busy. It's a job that pays very well, and I went to college and graduate school to learn how to do this sort of work.

In two weeks I'm saying goodbye to this job. Two weeks after that, I'm starting medical school at the ripe old age of 44. It's what I've always wanted to do, and now's a good time since they accepted me. I'm starting to get very nervous about the big changeover. But for the next eight years or so, school and/or residency will be my job. I can freelance-write if I want to make extra money, but fortunately my husband is successful and so I probably won't do that.


Funny you mention freelance writing...I am trying to get my foot in the door right now writing stories primarily about travel experiences in Asia. Can you offer any suggestions?

Thanks! :smokin:

[thcbongman]

hi,

I was just wondering how many smokers here do the grind mon-fri.? If you don't, how do you support yourself?

I'm just curious. As a person myself now looking for new employment, I'm curious to know what my fellow tokers do for a living.

I, used to move boxes around a warehouse. Exciting, huh! :rolleyes: I did a 4month stint with a partner in a personal business, but that was only temp.

So tell me, what do you do?

Typical office 9-5 job.

But it isn't so bad, I got a perfect review and 4% raise. No complaints. :P

[MaryJaneintheCloset]

I work about 4 days a week doing photography. :)

[MaryJaneintheCloset]

Just wanted to add, wow Birdgirl, good for you! That is AWESOME! :)

[skulltorcha]

Mon-Fri 8 hours a day, since i was 15.. now 17.

[birdgirl73]

Thanks, MJITC! I can use the encouragement right now. I'm ready to back out of starting school, I'm so scared. I think I'm worried about timing, too, with my sister sick. I worry that she'll need me and I won't be nearby as much as I am nowadays. The hospice nurses are going to start coming in mid-August about the time I start school, so she won't be helpless, but I still worry about leaving her.

Binzhou, I'm not sure if I'm a good source for advice. The freelance writing I'd do would be speeches and/or marketing stuff like brochures and the like. Articles and editorial work don't tend to pay as much.

As far as travel writing's concerned, the best markets I've ever heard of are good-sized metropolitan newspapers that have travel sections. Magazines like Conde-Nast Traveler, National Geographic, or Travel & Leisure have their own staffs. But newspapers don't generally want to pay travel expenses, and so they welcome freelance contributions if they're good. It helps to know someone at the papers first so you have a potential contact. And if you don't know anyone, it's probably a good idea to write some query letters to inquire about whether there's a market. Find a few medium to large (the biggest, like the NYTimes and other big city papers will be less likely to welcome freelance contributions) papers that have travel sections you like and write them some query emails and send them a couple of sample sections of articles you've written so they can see what you're capable of. You have to be persistent and be OK with the fact that you'll probably get turned down a lot before you get something accepted. That's just the nature of the business. Good luck!

[smokey]

im a security guard i do 14 hr shifts

[stinkyattic]

I work 9-5 running a chemistry lab.
At night, I tend bar.
Very early in the morning, I tend my indoor garden.
On weekends, I work on the rental property I bought 2 years ago.

When my raise comes through in a couple months I'm saying goodbye to the bartending job! Woo-Hoo!

[Binzhoubum]

Thanks, MJITC! I can use the encouragement right now. I'm ready to back out of starting school, I'm so scared. I think I'm worried about timing, too, with my sister sick. I worry that she'll need me and I won't be nearby as much as I am nowadays. The hospice nurses are going to start coming in mid-August about the time I start school, so she won't be helpless, but I still worry about leaving her.

Binzhou, I'm not sure if I'm a good source for advice. The freelance writing I'd do would be speeches and/or marketing stuff like brochures and the like. Articles and editorial work don't tend to pay as much.

As far as travel writing's concerned, the best markets I've ever heard of are good-sized metropolitan newspapers that have travel sections. Magazines like Conde-Nast Traveler, National Geographic, or Travel & Leisure have their own staffs. But newspapers don't generally want to pay travel expenses, and so they welcome freelance contributions if they're good. It helps to know someone at the papers first so you have a potential contact. And if you don't know anyone, it's probably a good idea to write some query letters to inquire about whether there's a market. Find a few medium to large (the biggest, like the NYTimes and other big city papers will be less likely to welcome freelance contributions) papers that have travel sections you like and write them some query emails and send them a couple of sample sections of articles you've written so they can see what you're capable of. You have to be persistent and be OK with the fact that you'll probably get turned down a lot before you get something accepted. That's just the nature of the business. Good luck!

Thanks Birdgirl! That sounds like a good plan. :smokin:

[Cloud997]

I buy and sell luxury cars and I work 70 hours a week, thank god I live two miles from my lot so when I'm driving by my house, I usually just stop in and smoke.

[smitty420]

im 18 about ot go to college but right now i work as a sales rep for a tile company. 9-5 every day but sunday but the pay is right.

[latewood]

I'm Play Southern Refried Rockin' Rythym and Blues, sing...I own 2 domains... Hygronomics.com and a bowling ball site I am building...In fact I am still writing Hygronomics. forums are up!

I have gardens to tend indoor and out.
Almost ready to go into the local markets, commercially. I took my MMJ growing knowledge, applied it to Veggies, and plan on getting paid this winter. peace