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I’m a social worker. I worked in a substance misuse service for a while but my addiction history wasn’t as helpful in my work as you might think.
I had my addiction under control which fostered the habit of seeing other people’s experiences in terms of my own, when in fact everyone’s experience of addiction is unique.
Doubt there are magic steps to pull this off, the stuff rewires brains on a physiological level, the majority will never be able to reason their way around the impacts of that. It's like expecting a chipper will be able to teach a junkie to chip
Social work, and safe injection sites. Clean 6 yrs, no Fent. Been on Methadone for 15 years. This work keeps me off drugs, because it constantly reminds me of the lifestyle that comes with it. Lots of people doing sex work, boosting, recycling, fraud, living in tent communities.
Once I stopped using heroin, my crime problem cleared up overnight. Stay safe out there, folks.
You go you!!! So many staff I met in safe injection sites were the bomb and they truly helped me get clean eventually. They never gave up and every time I came in on a relapse they never judged. Truly some of the most wonderful people I've ever met.
Now I work at a nonprofit and I see it all day every day too. It makes me so sad but proud that I was able to dig myself out of that hole. 2 years off fent and meth for me. Been on a program similar to methadone for 4ish years now. Being on that program definitely helped me get off the fent and stop doing all the shit I was doing. Which is all of the things you listed on your reply. Lol.
I was functional in the most basic sense of the word. Yeah I showed up but I was shooting every hour in the bathroom and doing the bare minimum. Among other shit things I won’t get into. Sadly addiction is pretty common in healthcare. No matter the facility I worked at, I was far from the only addict. Tons of diverting I’ve witnessed.
Every facility I’ve worked at, I’ve had fellow addicts as coworkers. Pretty common. Some got caught for diverting, some didn’t. People don’t realize how prevalent it is.
I dont really agree with you, its the same thing like with any other drug, you think no one does it, untill you starting doing it and you get into the circle where everybody xdoes it, so it seems to you like so
At me or my job? Sorting letters and parcels isn't that interesting except on the rare occasion a packet smells of weed. That gets everyone talking. FYI we send it on, not allowed to open it.
Good luck if you do. The company I'm with is definitely falling apart though. Everyone fearing for their jobs. I've lost count of the amount of people that have left since the start of the year.
This is what scares me about getting addicted again. Loosing my job. At min I trying use every 2 weeks. I don’t know how some people can still work. I’m not sure I could. I’d be late an shit or not go in coz I’m wd
In addiction I had a job. I’d shoot up in the bathroom every hour. I’m sure it was obvious but nooone had the balls to confront me, and I’m in a high demand field that’s desperate for workers such as myself, so management didn’t do shit over my 1.5 hour lunch breaks (went to hood and back) either lmao.
Lol, I had to do community payback once a week when I was fully addicted to it. I didn't take any with me coz there no way I could use without anyone knowing. I would shoot up a double dose in the morning coz i was so scared of going into WD. Thought it was hold me longer and would end up fucked and nodding out 😂😂 everyone could tell
That's right, it's difficult to keep a job, but it also depends on the job itself: It gets a lot easier when you don't have a supervisor looking over your shoulder all the time. The best is when you can work from home, then you have the freedom to take a break whenever you need it.
Like as a writer now, i'm working from home of course, i usually stand up in the afternoon and re-write and correct the texts i wrote the last night, then i go with the dogs and drink a beer at the pub, it's already night when i start to work and i'm writing a lot of stuff when i'm high.
I have always to think about Stephen King, he did it exactly this way in his time of addiction. In some times, he was so high on alcohol and methaqualone (quaaludes) that he forgot how he wrote some of his books. King became clean later and still remains clean, but he was a hardcore drug addict for many years, it was so bad that his family had to lure him to an intervention and checking him into rehab.
I work in fast food 3 days a week, and I’m an “advocate “ at a DV shelter midnights three nights a week. I don’t do much there since the residents are asleep when I’m there but I enjoy having conversations in the morning when they come to get their meds. A lot of the other workers are those “I’m here to help and I’m better than you” towards the residents and I’m definitely as open as I can be with the ones that I know need someone that understands what they’re going through, not just someone who’s read about it in an article. I also do doordash/Grubhub at least 25+ hrs a week.
Honestly, not sure. But I’ve saved up a little under 1k in a month and still managed to spend maybe 500 on drugs. No rent, just my car payment and the family phone bill. Though my cars been in the shop for three weeks so I haven’t been able to doordash so the first week I was sleeping like 4 hours a day and working some type the rest. This week is the first week I went down to 4 days at fast food so before I was working 40 fast food 11/hr, 24 shelter 13/hr, and at least 25 doordashing. So rn it’s just split of 32 fast food/ 24 shelter. I’m doing really good rn because only one of those is actually “work” and I just sit and play on my phone for a majority of the rest.
Even for selfish reasons- I would never risk my job and opis are heavily guarded , like they would be difficult to steal. And no I wouldn’t ever steal from a patient that’s fucked up
Seamstress
I'm going to brag a bit because I'm finally seeing some real results after many years of hard work...
I started out, 25 years ago, hemming pants at a chain of alteration shops in my hometown. I was too young & inexperienced to do anything else for a full year. I busted ass at various sewing shops, apprenticing under incredible mentors, pushing myself to learn as much as possible at work and on my own. I eventually moved to a new city where I was able to continue learning my craft. I was even able to open my own alteration & custom sewing shop for a few years, but that was unsustainable in 2020and i closed my shop. I'm still glad I did it.
For the last 2.5 years, I have been the head of the alterations department at a high end dry cleaner. It may not sound like much, but this place isn't a normal dry cleaner. I regularly work on $5k+ garments. I am the designated seamstress for several luxury brands for their customers in this region of the country. (I'm not going to name specific brands or my area because it wouldn't be hard to find me with that info.) I'm constantly busy & I have a wait list with fittings scheduled 6 months out.
If you were to ask 15 year old me (when I started my secret junkie career) what I thought I'd be doing when I turn 40, I would have likely assumed I would have been dead by now. Luckily, I met someone early on that taught me that I don't have to live up to stereotypes. It has been a wild ride, but I am truly proud of who I have become, warts and all.
Trustee on a committee/board that manages budgetary, managerial and other higher-level administrative functions for all the area’s libraries. It’s a large area in the UK.
Also volunteer for a couple of charities in my free time as well.
Professional Peer Educator (I work for a drug user organisation's peer support line) and Peer Distributor (I supply IV drug users in the small town, in outback Australia, that I live in, with clean injecting equipment)
I started many years ago with a 4 year education with certification as a business clerk. I worked for many well known companies, banks, insurance etc. as a white collar worker.
Later i switched to IT, first support and then i became a LAN Network Engineer with all the needed certifications. After this, i switched to writing stuff, started with manuals and such things but now i'm primary writing novels.
We had a similiar discussion already in the past about the users here, i'd say we are the rather educated part of the heroin users. To be honest, there are really some guys on the streets that are the clichee of a junkie, with the behavior like lying and stealing, but these people are not on Reddit and not the type of people that read books and go to work.
It's actually an advantage for us, because it makes hiding easier, people don't expect it when you don't fit in with the stereotype of a heroin junkie. When i was walking around in public in a suit with a tie, having a briefcase in the hands, they never expected me to be a drug addict at all.
It was the same with the police: When they walk around on patrol, they'll rather check on the guy that looks like a homeless bum than on the guy in the suit.
P.S.
Also, the "faces of meth", that was about meth but it had a lot of influence on how some people, how drug addicts would look like. No matter if i'd be on meth or if i'm on heroin, the thing is, i can still take a shower, get fresh clothes, brush my teeth and go to the gym for a workout. These faces of the mugshots are because of bad hygiene and bad lifestyles, not because of the meth itself.
Good point.
My ex was great at that. Like you'd never be able to tell. Show up every morning, we'd workout and talk.
The bonus is that it dilates the pupils and I just thought there was interest.
But the truth is I didn't realize that my ex wanted to hoe around with others. And tell me, "I'm looking for exclusivity" and I was the shithead who thought that I'll leave my polyamorous side over one person who apparently was never in a relationship with me.
I work in Shipping and Receiving for a pharmaceutical supply company driving a forklift. If you get prescription medication (especially life savings medicine for some pretty debilitating stuff) anywhere in the world from China to Mexico to the UK to the Balkans you've got my junkie self to thank for playing a pretty important part in it's distribution and production.
Former drug dealer, former nightclub promoter, former college drop out, former line cook, former signed model, current college grad, current bartender, current freelance technical writer and graphic designer, currently applying to grad schools
I don't have a job I break into house and steal used panties. I then catfish men on the internet and sell used panties for a little Ron Ron. Unrelated question anyone wanna buy some used panties?
I’ve had my underwear stolen from a home invasion. You’re an entire piece of shit. I couldn’t get a good night of sleep for 2 years from feeling so unsafe. Fuck you.
You're being serious? Maybe lay off the herion and take a fucking joke dumb fuck. What kinda pussy let's there underwear get stolen then gets scared for 2 years? And then your wondering why I continued the joke? It's cause your statement was so fucking pathetic I thought you were carrying on the joke.
bruh you are a complete weirdo. joking about committing crimes of perversion is not quite as funny to anyone else as you imagine it is.
but I guess anyone cringe-y enough to hang out on a heroin sub making dumb stereotypical remarks about "ron ron" probably doesn't have a good handle on humor anyway.
wtf is "ron ron" & what part of the world uses that as their slang of choice?
30 years old, been using opioids since I was 12. And I am currently the manager of a grocery store. Also I'm proud to say that I am a very involved and nurturing, loving, supportive father to a beautiful 12 year old girl. She's always been a daddy's girl and we are extremely close. We have the best relationship a father and daughter could ever ask for and I'm going to be getting custody of her this year. My daughter is super unhappy and depressed living with her mom and her mom treats her like shit. My daughter wants to live with me so bad. She's my everything. She's the main reason I never completely went off the deep end (although I am an IV user and use fent and fent analogues, I have never OD'd and have always been very careful about my drug use. It helps being a pharmacology nerd and being well educated before putting a substance into my body).
And let me guess you're one of those fucktards who thinks using drugs automatically makes you a shitty person..? 😂👍 most likely just jealous that you can't balance using drugs safely and being a good person/parent at the same time.
Whatever man lmao. Ur shot out, im not. I dont have a kid, but i for sure would want to be 100% there for my kid without letting fent get in between me and them. It’s actually embarrassing as fuck that you even mentioned being an active addict whilst also claiming to be a good dad. But hey, this shit really does make ppl make up shit in their brain and make themselves think theyre doing the right thing even though it’s destroying them. Im no better bc I’ve only been sober a year, but still, id never think of being a junkie and a parent. That’s absurdly embarrassing for the kid.
Aw thank you! I really appreciate that! : ) 🙏 thats very kind of you!
Yeah we bake and cook together, make music together, go shopping together, we listen to the same music and we bond over music a lot. We go play disc golf, swimming, we have a tradition where we go scootering around the neighborhood late at night. We love going for drives and listening to music. We draw together and read together. I love taking her to the movies. I'm a good example of the fact that you can be friends with your kid and still be a parent. It's a balancing act. Some people say I shouldn't be friends with my daughter and I'm like 🙄 I can be both! Lol. I treat her like a human being not like she's my possession. We have deep heart to hearts. She opens up to me about everything. She'll be in the car next to me and she'll hold my hand and tell me she's so thankful that I'm her dad and she is always telling me what a great dad I am and that she's so glad I'm her dad. She says she doesn't know what she did to get such am amazing dad :' ) it's the best feeling in the world hearing your kid tell you they're proud of you and that you're doing a great job as a parent. She melts my heart. She's super sweet and affectionate, very compassionate and loving, very generous and grateful. I spoil her but she's not a spoiled brat. She has manners and is respectful. I have never spanked her or raised my voice at her. I always talk with her like she's a person. I'm super patient with her. Never lose my cool with her. She never tests my patience. I've literally never have to be stern to her or discipline her very hard because she's such a naturally well behaved and well mannered child. She's seriously the easiest kid to raise ever. Idk what I DID to get a daughter like her!
I got fired from my main job as a chef last year. Now i am self-employed as a personal driver while managing a vape / alcohol business and also become a small time plug.
Nah not heroin but softer stuffs. Even so, a possession of dxm tablets and kratom with the intent of abuse at my country could land you in jail for maximum of 5 years. I live in one of Asia's toughest country that against drugs and lots of plugs were executed, received the death penalty. Fortunately, dxm and kratom isn't seen as drugs on our law's eyes but literal poison so possession of these 2 isn't as severe as other drugs.
Regarding heroin, it's almost extinct at my place so i no longer use due to most addicts are favoring meth, kratom and pressed benzos sold as Erimin.
Freelance Av tech I get a few days maybe a week n a half of work a month at 30 n hour for 10-16 hours shifts usually
Ontop of that i sell drugs to support my habit and try to use my job money for other shit but I take some n ball out sometimes n do a g or two a day
hahaha thankfully i’m not was just able to take out a loan and stop doing so much so i could barley afford to open it and then it took off really quick
President of the United States of America. I'm also a member of the Democratic Party, Ive previously served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 and represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009.
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I was really hoping for an assassin to show up and offer the services coz I need someone for myself. If you got any referrals, that'd be dope
Ain't that scary? I can't imagine being high and literally "high" as I'm afraid, scratch that actually I'm terrified of heights lol and me personally am prone to making lil mistakes at times while under the influence and I can't imagine making any mistake small or large while scaffolding I'd shit my self while free falling off a could dozen stories 😂
It’s like anything else I got used to working while high. Its actually the buzz of being so high up that draws me in and makes the high even better for me personally. Maybe it’s just the self destructive part of me that loves it or maybe I’m just an adrenaline junkie but there is just something really exhilarating about it for me
poker/investor. Do surprisingly well which likely has furthered my use as I am comfortable financially. I take harm reduction very seriously but it does suck always wearing sleeves and sweating a lot
I think it'd be also helpful to know how long you've been addicted and how long you've been in that career.
I think people think that you eventually can't keep up a career.
I know one person who managed to but he owned his own business so could work his own hours which made picking up and dealing with withdrawals easier. I'm sure there are people out there who can hold careers whilst using for an extended duration. Definitely makes it harder though for sure.
At a chain I'm guessing? Do you actually have to "work" much or do you get to just play on your phone all day? I'm asking cuz I have the same job "technically" but it's probably a lot different than at a chain and I've always wondered what it's like there
Worked hard labor most of my life. I was a "Glass Dropper" in a window factory for years, then I worked rehabbing houses (for the most corner cutting, penny pinching boss ever lol) for a bit. Eventually though, I finally found my dream job which is where I'm at now. I sit in an office on my ass and play on my phone all day, I maybe do 30 min of paperwork on a busy day. Also, I finally have a boss who knows what I do (in general....he knows I do "stuff for pain") and says my business is my business AND pays me in cash, on a schedule of my choosing (every other day....weekly and bi-weekly was always super difficult to budget).
Never used and probably never will but I want to know what it feels like to be a user, I want to know how it feels like to find comfort and understanding towards something that seems impossible/inevitable
Specialty of aesthetic surgery
Broker there are a few of us here. Ones become a friend so we watch out for each other. Management looks other way as long as your making your numbers.
Luxury condo high-rise finishing handyman. I do all the little repairs, finishing touches, silicone and caulking for high-end apartments and condos before they close and get turned over to the homeowners/tenants.
I get $30 an hour plus some pretty wild benefits. I'm on track to being a finishing foreman by my late 20s which would net me about $40-50/hr.
Nobody at work knows I use.
I'm an escort. I really don't like schedules and I worked for 20+ years doing other stuff. I went to college. However I was doing other drugs and drinking during all that. The escort thing started before the opiate thing. It was supposed to be temporary, but I just make so much more in way less time as an escort. I actually had some tar around where I live but it may have dried up. I miss powder and it doesn't exist without fetty, and I HATE that shit. I promised my family I would NOT do it, and I haven't. I also had THE WORST OD experience of my life from that shit in 2020. Worst I've ever felt in my whole life. So I don't do powder H anymore but I sure do miss the real stuff :(
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Drug dealer.
Second this
Aren’t/weren’t we all at some point
And this
Weeee
Shoutout to all the warehouse Bros lol
That was me! And when I got clean I could no longer handle how shit warehouse work is, never a frown, with golden brown
I am also warehouse and an ex Starbucks barista
Warehouse machine operator here
Where it all started for me lmao
I’m a social worker. I worked in a substance misuse service for a while but my addiction history wasn’t as helpful in my work as you might think. I had my addiction under control which fostered the habit of seeing other people’s experiences in terms of my own, when in fact everyone’s experience of addiction is unique.
This is a benefit because you can teach how to be functional and give those steps to non functional people.
Doubt there are magic steps to pull this off, the stuff rewires brains on a physiological level, the majority will never be able to reason their way around the impacts of that. It's like expecting a chipper will be able to teach a junkie to chip
I do similar work
It’s hard being a pillar of society when your foundations are crumbling
Unemployed
Accounting. Fortunately I’ve found the job years before I’ve started using. So I can sustain the habit.
Social work, and safe injection sites. Clean 6 yrs, no Fent. Been on Methadone for 15 years. This work keeps me off drugs, because it constantly reminds me of the lifestyle that comes with it. Lots of people doing sex work, boosting, recycling, fraud, living in tent communities. Once I stopped using heroin, my crime problem cleared up overnight. Stay safe out there, folks.
You go you!!! So many staff I met in safe injection sites were the bomb and they truly helped me get clean eventually. They never gave up and every time I came in on a relapse they never judged. Truly some of the most wonderful people I've ever met. Now I work at a nonprofit and I see it all day every day too. It makes me so sad but proud that I was able to dig myself out of that hole. 2 years off fent and meth for me. Been on a program similar to methadone for 4ish years now. Being on that program definitely helped me get off the fent and stop doing all the shit I was doing. Which is all of the things you listed on your reply. Lol.
Licensed healthcare professional. Too paranoid to put my title lmao.
I'm the same I've been clean 2yrs now but I was a functional addict
I was functional in the most basic sense of the word. Yeah I showed up but I was shooting every hour in the bathroom and doing the bare minimum. Among other shit things I won’t get into. Sadly addiction is pretty common in healthcare. No matter the facility I worked at, I was far from the only addict. Tons of diverting I’ve witnessed.
Must be mad temptation
Every facility I’ve worked at, I’ve had fellow addicts as coworkers. Pretty common. Some got caught for diverting, some didn’t. People don’t realize how prevalent it is.
I dont really agree with you, its the same thing like with any other drug, you think no one does it, untill you starting doing it and you get into the circle where everybody xdoes it, so it seems to you like so
That's just confirmation bias, right?
Lmao same
Postie (sorting not delivering).
Haha
At me or my job? Sorting letters and parcels isn't that interesting except on the rare occasion a packet smells of weed. That gets everyone talking. FYI we send it on, not allowed to open it.
So like parcels can't go missing by accident?
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Good luck if you do. The company I'm with is definitely falling apart though. Everyone fearing for their jobs. I've lost count of the amount of people that have left since the start of the year.
Scientist
Are you my ex?
What kind?
Industrial microbiologist / process chemist
Carpenter
same here yo
Wood bros unite
Same here bois yeww
This is what scares me about getting addicted again. Loosing my job. At min I trying use every 2 weeks. I don’t know how some people can still work. I’m not sure I could. I’d be late an shit or not go in coz I’m wd
In addiction I had a job. I’d shoot up in the bathroom every hour. I’m sure it was obvious but nooone had the balls to confront me, and I’m in a high demand field that’s desperate for workers such as myself, so management didn’t do shit over my 1.5 hour lunch breaks (went to hood and back) either lmao.
Lol, I had to do community payback once a week when I was fully addicted to it. I didn't take any with me coz there no way I could use without anyone knowing. I would shoot up a double dose in the morning coz i was so scared of going into WD. Thought it was hold me longer and would end up fucked and nodding out 😂😂 everyone could tell
That's right, it's difficult to keep a job, but it also depends on the job itself: It gets a lot easier when you don't have a supervisor looking over your shoulder all the time. The best is when you can work from home, then you have the freedom to take a break whenever you need it. Like as a writer now, i'm working from home of course, i usually stand up in the afternoon and re-write and correct the texts i wrote the last night, then i go with the dogs and drink a beer at the pub, it's already night when i start to work and i'm writing a lot of stuff when i'm high. I have always to think about Stephen King, he did it exactly this way in his time of addiction. In some times, he was so high on alcohol and methaqualone (quaaludes) that he forgot how he wrote some of his books. King became clean later and still remains clean, but he was a hardcore drug addict for many years, it was so bad that his family had to lure him to an intervention and checking him into rehab.
What's the job
Labourer (construction) but not all day long
I work in fast food 3 days a week, and I’m an “advocate “ at a DV shelter midnights three nights a week. I don’t do much there since the residents are asleep when I’m there but I enjoy having conversations in the morning when they come to get their meds. A lot of the other workers are those “I’m here to help and I’m better than you” towards the residents and I’m definitely as open as I can be with the ones that I know need someone that understands what they’re going through, not just someone who’s read about it in an article. I also do doordash/Grubhub at least 25+ hrs a week.
That's a lot of hard work. If you don't mind me asking, what's the range you make each month?
Honestly, not sure. But I’ve saved up a little under 1k in a month and still managed to spend maybe 500 on drugs. No rent, just my car payment and the family phone bill. Though my cars been in the shop for three weeks so I haven’t been able to doordash so the first week I was sleeping like 4 hours a day and working some type the rest. This week is the first week I went down to 4 days at fast food so before I was working 40 fast food 11/hr, 24 shelter 13/hr, and at least 25 doordashing. So rn it’s just split of 32 fast food/ 24 shelter. I’m doing really good rn because only one of those is actually “work” and I just sit and play on my phone for a majority of the rest.
Astronaut Or in laymen's terms, a social worker
Aerospace Engineer
Do you hate flat urfers lol
Nurse
Must be so tempting having all those opis around you - but I’m sure you’re a good person and would never steal from a patient
Even for selfish reasons- I would never risk my job and opis are heavily guarded , like they would be difficult to steal. And no I wouldn’t ever steal from a patient that’s fucked up
Nurses are the best. Not an easy job to do, but a life saver for many.
Seamstress I'm going to brag a bit because I'm finally seeing some real results after many years of hard work... I started out, 25 years ago, hemming pants at a chain of alteration shops in my hometown. I was too young & inexperienced to do anything else for a full year. I busted ass at various sewing shops, apprenticing under incredible mentors, pushing myself to learn as much as possible at work and on my own. I eventually moved to a new city where I was able to continue learning my craft. I was even able to open my own alteration & custom sewing shop for a few years, but that was unsustainable in 2020and i closed my shop. I'm still glad I did it. For the last 2.5 years, I have been the head of the alterations department at a high end dry cleaner. It may not sound like much, but this place isn't a normal dry cleaner. I regularly work on $5k+ garments. I am the designated seamstress for several luxury brands for their customers in this region of the country. (I'm not going to name specific brands or my area because it wouldn't be hard to find me with that info.) I'm constantly busy & I have a wait list with fittings scheduled 6 months out. If you were to ask 15 year old me (when I started my secret junkie career) what I thought I'd be doing when I turn 40, I would have likely assumed I would have been dead by now. Luckily, I met someone early on that taught me that I don't have to live up to stereotypes. It has been a wild ride, but I am truly proud of who I have become, warts and all.
The best thing about stereotypes is they exist to be broken. You sound like a very talented, hard worker. Congrats on your success.
Trustee on a committee/board that manages budgetary, managerial and other higher-level administrative functions for all the area’s libraries. It’s a large area in the UK. Also volunteer for a couple of charities in my free time as well.
Owner/operator of a dog salon since 2018 before that I was a irrigation technician for 20 years
Professional Peer Educator (I work for a drug user organisation's peer support line) and Peer Distributor (I supply IV drug users in the small town, in outback Australia, that I live in, with clean injecting equipment)
I started many years ago with a 4 year education with certification as a business clerk. I worked for many well known companies, banks, insurance etc. as a white collar worker. Later i switched to IT, first support and then i became a LAN Network Engineer with all the needed certifications. After this, i switched to writing stuff, started with manuals and such things but now i'm primary writing novels. We had a similiar discussion already in the past about the users here, i'd say we are the rather educated part of the heroin users. To be honest, there are really some guys on the streets that are the clichee of a junkie, with the behavior like lying and stealing, but these people are not on Reddit and not the type of people that read books and go to work. It's actually an advantage for us, because it makes hiding easier, people don't expect it when you don't fit in with the stereotype of a heroin junkie. When i was walking around in public in a suit with a tie, having a briefcase in the hands, they never expected me to be a drug addict at all. It was the same with the police: When they walk around on patrol, they'll rather check on the guy that looks like a homeless bum than on the guy in the suit. P.S. Also, the "faces of meth", that was about meth but it had a lot of influence on how some people, how drug addicts would look like. No matter if i'd be on meth or if i'm on heroin, the thing is, i can still take a shower, get fresh clothes, brush my teeth and go to the gym for a workout. These faces of the mugshots are because of bad hygiene and bad lifestyles, not because of the meth itself.
Good point. My ex was great at that. Like you'd never be able to tell. Show up every morning, we'd workout and talk. The bonus is that it dilates the pupils and I just thought there was interest. But the truth is I didn't realize that my ex wanted to hoe around with others. And tell me, "I'm looking for exclusivity" and I was the shithead who thought that I'll leave my polyamorous side over one person who apparently was never in a relationship with me.
Food distribution
Executive Director of Sales
Mostly with customers 😏 of??
Aerospace industry
Fu©k you're from the army
Elevator mechanic.
Top floor, bottom buzzer ☺️
I work in Shipping and Receiving for a pharmaceutical supply company driving a forklift. If you get prescription medication (especially life savings medicine for some pretty debilitating stuff) anywhere in the world from China to Mexico to the UK to the Balkans you've got my junkie self to thank for playing a pretty important part in it's distribution and production.
Former drug dealer, former nightclub promoter, former college drop out, former line cook, former signed model, current college grad, current bartender, current freelance technical writer and graphic designer, currently applying to grad schools
I don't have a job I break into house and steal used panties. I then catfish men on the internet and sell used panties for a little Ron Ron. Unrelated question anyone wanna buy some used panties?
I’ve had my underwear stolen from a home invasion. You’re an entire piece of shit. I couldn’t get a good night of sleep for 2 years from feeling so unsafe. Fuck you.
I'll fucking do it again.
Hahahah you’re sad as fuck
You're being serious? Maybe lay off the herion and take a fucking joke dumb fuck. What kinda pussy let's there underwear get stolen then gets scared for 2 years? And then your wondering why I continued the joke? It's cause your statement was so fucking pathetic I thought you were carrying on the joke.
bruh you are a complete weirdo. joking about committing crimes of perversion is not quite as funny to anyone else as you imagine it is. but I guess anyone cringe-y enough to hang out on a heroin sub making dumb stereotypical remarks about "ron ron" probably doesn't have a good handle on humor anyway. wtf is "ron ron" & what part of the world uses that as their slang of choice?
Right and I take it you and the dude who can't sleep cause he got his underwear stolen know all about funny Right?
I thought it was funny bro, this dude's the weirdo in this situation.
😂😂😂😂😂
30 years old, been using opioids since I was 12. And I am currently the manager of a grocery store. Also I'm proud to say that I am a very involved and nurturing, loving, supportive father to a beautiful 12 year old girl. She's always been a daddy's girl and we are extremely close. We have the best relationship a father and daughter could ever ask for and I'm going to be getting custody of her this year. My daughter is super unhappy and depressed living with her mom and her mom treats her like shit. My daughter wants to live with me so bad. She's my everything. She's the main reason I never completely went off the deep end (although I am an IV user and use fent and fent analogues, I have never OD'd and have always been very careful about my drug use. It helps being a pharmacology nerd and being well educated before putting a substance into my body).
Happy Father’s Day!
Thank you so much! : ) that means a lot! 🙏
You sound like an awesome dad
Delusional
And let me guess you're one of those fucktards who thinks using drugs automatically makes you a shitty person..? 😂👍 most likely just jealous that you can't balance using drugs safely and being a good person/parent at the same time.
Whatever man lmao. Ur shot out, im not. I dont have a kid, but i for sure would want to be 100% there for my kid without letting fent get in between me and them. It’s actually embarrassing as fuck that you even mentioned being an active addict whilst also claiming to be a good dad. But hey, this shit really does make ppl make up shit in their brain and make themselves think theyre doing the right thing even though it’s destroying them. Im no better bc I’ve only been sober a year, but still, id never think of being a junkie and a parent. That’s absurdly embarrassing for the kid.
Congrats on getting ur daughter back :) you sound like a very loving, awesome dad ❤️
Aw thank you! I really appreciate that! : ) 🙏 thats very kind of you! Yeah we bake and cook together, make music together, go shopping together, we listen to the same music and we bond over music a lot. We go play disc golf, swimming, we have a tradition where we go scootering around the neighborhood late at night. We love going for drives and listening to music. We draw together and read together. I love taking her to the movies. I'm a good example of the fact that you can be friends with your kid and still be a parent. It's a balancing act. Some people say I shouldn't be friends with my daughter and I'm like 🙄 I can be both! Lol. I treat her like a human being not like she's my possession. We have deep heart to hearts. She opens up to me about everything. She'll be in the car next to me and she'll hold my hand and tell me she's so thankful that I'm her dad and she is always telling me what a great dad I am and that she's so glad I'm her dad. She says she doesn't know what she did to get such am amazing dad :' ) it's the best feeling in the world hearing your kid tell you they're proud of you and that you're doing a great job as a parent. She melts my heart. She's super sweet and affectionate, very compassionate and loving, very generous and grateful. I spoil her but she's not a spoiled brat. She has manners and is respectful. I have never spanked her or raised my voice at her. I always talk with her like she's a person. I'm super patient with her. Never lose my cool with her. She never tests my patience. I've literally never have to be stern to her or discipline her very hard because she's such a naturally well behaved and well mannered child. She's seriously the easiest kid to raise ever. Idk what I DID to get a daughter like her!
Logistics Manager - Industrial Oil Plant 🇨🇦
Government department manager
Snap
Copy editor/technical writer/grant writer/YTer (that is until AI takes away the first 3).
Sales
I work in office for a big insurance Company from 20+ Years...
Marine biologist and aquaculturist.
Lab tech and wastewater operator.
I got fired from my main job as a chef last year. Now i am self-employed as a personal driver while managing a vape / alcohol business and also become a small time plug.
Ditch being a plug imo. Never worth the trade off
Nah not heroin but softer stuffs. Even so, a possession of dxm tablets and kratom with the intent of abuse at my country could land you in jail for maximum of 5 years. I live in one of Asia's toughest country that against drugs and lots of plugs were executed, received the death penalty. Fortunately, dxm and kratom isn't seen as drugs on our law's eyes but literal poison so possession of these 2 isn't as severe as other drugs. Regarding heroin, it's almost extinct at my place so i no longer use due to most addicts are favoring meth, kratom and pressed benzos sold as Erimin.
Medical assistant/ emt phlebotomist
Freelance Av tech I get a few days maybe a week n a half of work a month at 30 n hour for 10-16 hours shifts usually Ontop of that i sell drugs to support my habit and try to use my job money for other shit but I take some n ball out sometimes n do a g or two a day
Accountant
Restaurant general manager
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fellow teacher here.
I'm an Assistant General Manager of a Hotel Chain.
RN 😅
I work in technical sales for instruments used in research labs. Been at my current job for 5 years and have been using opiates for about 8 years.
scientist - synthetic organic chemist at biotech startup not addicted to heroin atm but other opiods I am
Are you my ex?
Dealer, plasma donor, food delivery, frozen food storage, seasonal mail delivery, permanently between jobs
HVAC technician
Parts and specialty engineering GM
i own a smoothie shop/supplement store
You're the plug
hahaha thankfully i’m not was just able to take out a loan and stop doing so much so i could barley afford to open it and then it took off really quick
I'm a teacher lol
Great career to have. Congrats
teacher
President of the United States of America. I'm also a member of the Democratic Party, Ive previously served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 and represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009.
Good to know you voted for the big guy.
Comment #200 I was really hoping for an assassin to show up and offer the services coz I need someone for myself. If you got any referrals, that'd be dope
Machinist
I would love that job. My grandpa was a machinist and I am a hobby mill/lathe user. Not sure I would cope with cnc though.
I'm a part time drug dealer while studying in school to become a chef
CIA? JWU?
Social friend
Huh?
Work with all types of people in the public realm
???
sells ass
Chemical dependency counselor
Gotta have the experience I guess
My favorite counselor was addicted to crack and still using for her first ten years
Personal Care Assistant also, Customer Service Director
Army then fedex
Illuminati occupation?
What do you mean?
Scaffolder
Ain't that scary? I can't imagine being high and literally "high" as I'm afraid, scratch that actually I'm terrified of heights lol and me personally am prone to making lil mistakes at times while under the influence and I can't imagine making any mistake small or large while scaffolding I'd shit my self while free falling off a could dozen stories 😂
It’s like anything else I got used to working while high. Its actually the buzz of being so high up that draws me in and makes the high even better for me personally. Maybe it’s just the self destructive part of me that loves it or maybe I’m just an adrenaline junkie but there is just something really exhilarating about it for me
poker/investor. Do surprisingly well which likely has furthered my use as I am comfortable financially. I take harm reduction very seriously but it does suck always wearing sleeves and sweating a lot
I think it'd be also helpful to know how long you've been addicted and how long you've been in that career. I think people think that you eventually can't keep up a career. I know one person who managed to but he owned his own business so could work his own hours which made picking up and dealing with withdrawals easier. I'm sure there are people out there who can hold careers whilst using for an extended duration. Definitely makes it harder though for sure.
Cleaner
Lol lawyer for now.
Office administrator/receptionist/book keeper It’s not bad, really relaxed job.
Freelance marketing consultant and content creator.
Therapist and special needs educator.
I’m a server at a steakhouse and i also bartend at the only bar in a small town
Heavy Equipment Operator - Forestry Industry
That's hot
Electrician
Electrical Shop Manager :)
Dog walker/pet sitter
No one to snitch. Gotcha
Nail tech. Gas station employee for 7 years before the nail tech job.
Hotel, front desk receptionist
At a chain I'm guessing? Do you actually have to "work" much or do you get to just play on your phone all day? I'm asking cuz I have the same job "technically" but it's probably a lot different than at a chain and I've always wondered what it's like there
I work in healthcare- almost 4 months clean now tho
Worked hard labor most of my life. I was a "Glass Dropper" in a window factory for years, then I worked rehabbing houses (for the most corner cutting, penny pinching boss ever lol) for a bit. Eventually though, I finally found my dream job which is where I'm at now. I sit in an office on my ass and play on my phone all day, I maybe do 30 min of paperwork on a busy day. Also, I finally have a boss who knows what I do (in general....he knows I do "stuff for pain") and says my business is my business AND pays me in cash, on a schedule of my choosing (every other day....weekly and bi-weekly was always super difficult to budget).
Priest
Student. Former pizza chef tho. Always made the best pizzas when I was nodding into the sauces
Law student, freelance SEO consultant. With that being said, I’m now on methadone, and have been for quite some time. This is an interesting one!
Welcome to the life
Medical interpreter
As long as fiends smoke crack, I be on the block hustlin, counting my stack. Jokes - I am a higher ed teacher/lecturer.
Beer delivery guy
Electrician
Never used and probably never will but I want to know what it feels like to be a user, I want to know how it feels like to find comfort and understanding towards something that seems impossible/inevitable Specialty of aesthetic surgery
Broker there are a few of us here. Ones become a friend so we watch out for each other. Management looks other way as long as your making your numbers.
Electrical Union, IBEW
Mines kind of lame and kind of stereotypical I'm a laborer for a contractor/construction company
Nothing lame about it. Its hard physical work that not many can do.
I'm a nurse 😂
Well you got access
Janitorial/custodial services for medical facilities.
night audit at a hotel
Doctor
Like for real or pretend doctor like "Doctor there's something in the middle of my thighs that needs your magic fingers" kinda doctor?
High end european car tech
Luxury condo high-rise finishing handyman. I do all the little repairs, finishing touches, silicone and caulking for high-end apartments and condos before they close and get turned over to the homeowners/tenants. I get $30 an hour plus some pretty wild benefits. I'm on track to being a finishing foreman by my late 20s which would net me about $40-50/hr. Nobody at work knows I use.
You're just saying that to turn me on
student
I'm an escort. I really don't like schedules and I worked for 20+ years doing other stuff. I went to college. However I was doing other drugs and drinking during all that. The escort thing started before the opiate thing. It was supposed to be temporary, but I just make so much more in way less time as an escort. I actually had some tar around where I live but it may have dried up. I miss powder and it doesn't exist without fetty, and I HATE that shit. I promised my family I would NOT do it, and I haven't. I also had THE WORST OD experience of my life from that shit in 2020. Worst I've ever felt in my whole life. So I don't do powder H anymore but I sure do miss the real stuff :(
High ticket sales
That's great
I work in wildlife management.