Where do potheads work?

[Nochowderforyou]

Right now I work for a company called NPI. They are a landscaping company, but during the winter months when no landscaping can be done, they do snow removal, so right now I do that. We use a little enclosed cab. mini-tractor to remove the snow. It's heated, has music in there, and I work only 4hrs a day-Mon-Fri, and every weekend I work at 6am Sat/Sun, so I work 7 days a week. It's not all bad though. On the weekends I'm home by 8am, so I have the entire day to do whatever. It's not stressful work. You just remove snow using a tractor while blasting tunes in the cab. I don't mind it one bit.

In March though of 2007, I am returning back to school for 1st year jouneymen welding. I'm looking forward to that.

[le vallette]

Im head chef I do not smoke when I'm at work but do enjoy a smoke when I get home as it is a stressfull job.plus plus can never get to sleep when I get home need time to wind down.smoking helps ,could say it'sfor medicenal reasons.

[invoke]

In 11th grade, after high school I'm going to be an electrician or landscaping.

[Meenstreek]

Does it count if I'm a pot advocate and not a head?

My work right now is first-year medical school. With lots of books and CDs and software and lab classes. But, fortunately, I'm on holiday at the moment. Before I went back to school last fall, I was a professional speechwriter/copywriter for a big corporation for many years. And before that I was a news reporter for a metropolitan newspaper and a high school English/journalism teacher. During my teaching years and throughout college and grad school before that, I also worked as a fire department paramedic.

You most definitely count. We need more pot advocates out.

[MastaChronic]

we potheads are your mailmen, your lawyers, your delivery people, your judges, your cops, your bums, your door-to-door salesmen, your gas pumpers, your scientists, your generals, your presidents, your soldiers, your construction workers, your criminals, we are everybody.

[dejayou30]

we potheads are your mailmen, your lawyers, your delivery people, your judges, your cops, your bums, your door-to-door salesmen, your gas pumpers, your scientists, your generals, your presidents, your soldiers, your construction workers, your criminals, we are everybody.

well said.

[Meenstreek]

Does it count if I'm a pot advocate and not a head?

My work right now is first-year medical school. With lots of books and CDs and software and lab classes. But, fortunately, I'm on holiday at the moment. Before I went back to school last fall, I was a professional speechwriter/copywriter for a big corporation for many years. And before that I was a news reporter for a metropolitan newspaper and a high school English/journalism teacher. During my teaching years and throughout college and grad school before that, I also worked as a fire department paramedic.

I meant to ask this in my last post, but I was cut off. I'm at work and well you know how that goes.

I had a question for you birdgirl. I was wondering how you got your gig as a professional speechwriter?

Here at work I've done killer presentations and wrote a few things for the bigdogs to say at conventions, meetings, etc... I've always had fun, interesting, original speeches at school, but I never considered it a viable career option. I have a flair for words and I think I could do well writing speeches.

Also, what can a good speechwriter expect to get paid?

[kknight]

During the weekends I run and DJ at skating for a skating rink. I have six more years before my boss jumps ship and retires and I get first buy.

During the week, I work for my father's HVAC company and I just got registered for another semester in college- working on my business degree.

[whatsurgenre]

I am currently a sophmore in a university,
where I also work at the social studies department as the program assistant for asian pacific american studies.
I don't think anyone else does it.
It's not a good place to even bring it up.

although my writing professor surely does it.

[birdgirl73]

I meant to ask this in my last post, but I was cut off. I'm at work and well you know how that goes.

I had a question for you birdgirl. I was wondering how you got your gig as a professional speechwriter?

Here at work I've done killer presentations and wrote a few things for the bigdogs to say at conventions, meetings, etc... I've always had fun, interesting, original speeches at school, but I never considered it a viable career option. I have a flair for words and I think I could do well writing speeches.

Also, what can a good speechwriter expect to get paid?

The way I got that gig--and the way most speechwriters do, too--is that I was working as a writer for that corporation. I started as a business writer and hated that because it actually involved tech writing, and I'm really more into creative/human-angle writing. So I worked my way into the marketing and PR area and did marketing copy/advertising writing for a number of years. That was the organization in which the executive speechwriters were, too, and they'd ask us to help with executive speeches when they got too busy. That morphed into an opening on the speechwriting team. And that's how I ended up in that job.

A lot of writers do freelance speechwriting or other types of freelance writing to build experience. If you can write an ad or a brochure, you can usually write a speech, too, or a video or audio script. Just so you know how to write in a conversational, succinct tone. The problem for freelancers is you need some way of finding people who need speeches to be written, and that's why working for a corporation works well. The execs and high-ranking managers often have public-speaking obligations. A good source of people who need speeches is often in local politics. That's frequently how political speechwriters get their starts. But they often come from the business world, too. One of my former colleagues from the corporation where I worked, which is a big Texas technology company, later got a job as a writer at the White House.

Salaries can vary, but freelance writers often charge more for speechwriting than other types of word-crafting, mostly because it's more visible, important writing. The experienced freelancers in our area charge $125/hour or more for executive speechwriting. Salaries for writers in corporations can vary anywhere from the low- to mid-40s for entry-level on up to more than$100,000 a year for experienced writers. I was lucky enough to be on the upper end of that scale before I went back to school. Political speechwriters who work for the government generally start in the mid-40s and don't go much higher than the mid-70s. (Private-sector jobs pay more.) But the top freelance political speechwriters can make a lot of money. The speechwriters who write for our president and his senior leaders tend to be staff writers rather than freelancers, however. They do that partially for security reasons but also to maintain exclusivity of phrasing/style.

If you're interested in being a speechwriter, read read read. Read famous speeches and books about famous speakers. Watch CSPAN and other channels that cover speakers and talkers. And get the book Simply Speaking by Peggy Noonan. She was a speechwriter for Ronald Reagan and is quite knowledgeable about speechwriting and communications (even if her political leanings are the complete opposite of mine).