How man jobs have you had in your life?

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That's not a very well thought out question. It's a common fear of people though, ever since the insurance industry started making it expensive for companies not to drug test.

I've had over 30 jobs in my life. I've also had pot in my urine since I was 14. What do you think?

I've found that that majority of jobs where they care about that kind of thing aren't really jobs I do well at anyway. I'm not a droid and I'm not like your typical employee. I'm much MUCH better at determining what should be done and the most efficient ways of doing it, vs. actually doing the nitty gritty work involved in accomplishing it. There are plenty of people with slower brains that can do that without going bonkers, not me.
(haven't you noticed that management doesn't get tested?)

I haven't been fired very often at all. I'm the one that leaves because I'm bored or the work is too difficult for me to track. Now that I know why I've had issues, finding and keeping my next employment should be pretty easy. Most likely I'll just go into business for myself again. The only testing I do is to ensure I'm getting medicinal grade meds.

You don't have to be condescending, that's a realistic concern for people trying to get something better than McDonald's. I'm not sure if they started testing too.

The jobs bossing others around and determining how things should get done are, most often, the jobs that require prior drug screening. I think managers do get tested, actually. Not sure about that. Even if they don't, if you are high all the time, won't the employees notice and lose respect? They will start whispering about you and say to each other it's not fair you get to smoke pot and they don't. They will think it's setting a bad example.


Isn't that a wrench in the entire legalize pot movement? How are you going to work around drug testing? How is somebody going to light up a joint everyday and still pass urine tests? If pot were legalized, wouldn't it make workers less productive than they are already. If they are going to legalize something, it should be a stimulant, not a depressant, heh.

I'm confused. Did NTIDAS say that he was going to work while under the influence of pot? Did I miss something?

hee hee, no, I was pointing out the irony.

No, it's ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo that's confused. She's still having issues getting over the disinformation that most people take for granted on medicinal cannabis. I've posted on it at length, several times now, and she's just spilling it over into this thread.

Is it normal for people to accuse people with AS of being on a particular med like depakote or Prosac or something? No. So why would they think I'm using cannabis? Oh...... that's right, all that stereotypical B.S. the govt has been blasting the public with for 70 years.

In reality, people come to me for advice and have quite a bit of respect for me. They'd be shocked out of their boots if they knew I used cannabis to medicate for AS. That's not to say I wasn't ever a stoner as a teenager but I didn't know better or that I had AS then and those days are long over.

She's just upset that she's been reading information about medicinal cannabis that doesn't jive with what everyone around her says and it irritates her. You can tell in all the comments she's left about it already as it comes through quite clearly.


Back on topic. What's the reason most of you have left your positions?

Pffft, no, actually I'm not upset and I didn't mean to get on your last nerve. I was bored and noticed a twist and thought I'd point it out.

You still don't get it do you?

Sativas ARE a stimulant. Go back and re-read the difference between Indica and Sativa and why it being illegal makes the Indicas much more readily available. (You seem to have missed that part repeatedly)

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I said it in jest. It was wishful thinking.


Where can I get a Sativa?

Help the activists in your state push for medical or decriminalization laws.

Then either buy it from a dispensary (expensive at $400 a month around here) or grow it yourself for about $40 a month, if the laws allow.

Edit: I have definitely preferred the advice of a doctor to help me select the particular Sativa strains that were best for me. As it was it took nearly a year to find strains that were acceptable. I'm still working toward the 'best' but in the meantime it beats the crap out of any Rx I've been handed and it doesn't have a 2-3 page list of harmful side effects or do damage to my body. (other than the lung thing until I can make pills)

The more states it becomes legal in, the sooner the Feds will change their laws and the sooner you can have your doctor assist you in finding out which cannabis med to use instead of switching to yet another of the Rx ones that are killing all of us right now. The difference is amazing!

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Why did I leave my last position?

My last position, I didn't leave, it expired because it was a temporary job.
Once, I left a job with a small business because they stopped paying me.
Another time I ran out on a job because I was overwhelmed, felt very anxious and like I would never finish. I know it's lame but all I could think about was walking away. I found the nearest door, ran out it and straight to my car.

Worked for my mum in her childrens business when I was younger as a sales rep (not sure anyone else would've employed me as I was too vague hahaha)
In the last year or two I have done berry picking, leaflet delivery, waitress (which I actually really enjoyed and got a raise and everything - although the restaurant I worked in wasn't that insanely busy), sams warehouse (retail general items store), dan murpheys (big liquor store), acting, and took on the occasional singing student.

I've had jobs that were just overwhelming as well. I don't blame anyone for realizing things are too much and bailing.

I worked for a carpet cleaning company for 3 days while they trained me. The ethics of the owners and the workers was so bad that I had to quit. The guy actually complained that he'd just spent 3 days of cash training me. LOL

I've left companies when 'Big Changes' were implemented and I could see bad results coming that management couldn't. Interesting being the first rat to leave a sinking ship, for the 4th or 5th time, a few weeks before anyone else realizes it's sinking

Quit delivering the paper because I couldn't handle tracking who had paid and who hadn't. (Back when you had to go 'collect' door to door) Worked it again later without issues with newspapers that direct billed the clients.

Delivered pizzas for 3 crazy, nightmarish weeks. ROTFLMAO! I'm so geographically challenged it's unreal. Combine that with my not having glasses and being nearsighted and you have the recipe for a total disaster! I still chuckle about that one.

Now, driving around is something I love doing. I wouldn't mind a job delivering stuff. The only thing I didn't like about delivering pizzas was counting the change. lol. For some reason I need the cash register. I could have used a calculator, but I didn't think of it. I wonder how lame I would have looked with a calculator in my hand to do the simplest math...someone gives me a 20 and the total is $15.63 how much do I owe them? I need words.

I've had 9 jobs in 19 years.

My first was a temporary job doing data entry work for an insurance company.

After that, I got an accounting job in a nursing home.

I then worked doing interviewing for public assistance, then at the same employer, worked in human resources. After the poor treatment I was given in both of those jobs, I swore I'd never work in government again, but couldn't even get an intereview anywhere, so I went back to government.

I did another stint in an accounting job, 6 months as a programmer, another accounting job, and then 2 jobs in economic research. I've been around a little in a variety of different jobs. For now at least, I'm settled into something I enjoy doing, and the people I work with are pretty nice, which makes alot of difference.

I've only had one job and I still have it today. I'm in college and live at home so I feel I don't need a high paying job(it's not like I could get one anyways). I'm use to my job now and it's been part of my routine for a while so I'm not ready for change yet. Plus with the way the economy is, it's not like I could leave or else I'd just put myself in a hole.

when I was in High school I work as a theatre tech (grips, light, sound) for four years, two being payed.

After School I work for a vending machine company, cleaning and maintaining equipment, and stocking the warehouse and trucks until a non work related injury cost me the job.

two years ago I worked overnights at an admiral gas station, I quit because my boss was an abusive, insulting c**t.

and late last year I started working in home health care, transfer an elderly woman form bed to her wheelchair to an easychair then back again using a hoyer paitent lift and Doing handyman work around her home. It's about half a hours work three times a day with the rest of the day spent on call. It's easy but stressful, I've had one day off in five months that wasn't a sick day (mine or hers), but it's extremely statisfiying, helping someone who needs help. It's also the longest I've held a job without wanting to leave it.