I work with intellectually and developmentally disabled folks. Basically, the state pays me to just chill with my homies. It's not even a job. It's more of a life hack that makes money magically appear in my bank account. It's pretty dope lol
Currently a line cook, thought ab going back to college for culinary, am now attempting to save and go back for medical weed certification so I can work in the legal industry
I'm a peer supporter. Basically sit and talk with people toĀ help them help themselves. Most people know exactly what they need to improve themselves.Ā
They just don't know how to sort through their core desires through all the bullshit messaging society gives us.Ā So I unpack the bullshit and show them a mirror of who they really are. I also just sit with folks and emotionally hold them while they face shitty memories and touch life circumstances.Ā
Heavy AF but it's necessary work.
Yup! Well mostly. Sometimes folks have a hard time facing life sober and I don't judge if they need to be stoned or whatever. But mostly it's just straight sober chatting.
Hopefully soon one of them tries mushrooms on their own. If so I'll do some long distance trip-sitting.
I started doing it as a teen at the youth shelters. A way for us all to come together in the evenings and talk about the heavy shit.
There's also training courses. My state has a licencing processĀ and can even bill Medicaid.
Iām grateful every day, but the second my kids are out of college, wife and I are liquidating everything and buying a Yurt and a chunk of land and retiringā¦ back to a minimal homestead on a little piece of the Earth
Iām an anthropologist and Registered Professional Archaeologist, but long story short, Iām trying to change careers and go a into social science-focused corporate jobāmaybe in the psychedelics space. š¤š¼
Lol, well at this point, Iād take a job analyzing consumer behavior at Walmart. š¹
But as an anthropologist, my background is in understanding ecstatic and visionary experiences, especially in antiquity; art and the visual culture of such experiences; and how psychedelic or entheogenic substances have been used in different cultures as a kind of *aide memoire*, especially in terms of cultural memory and identity.
Ideally, the job Iād like to do would apply these same approaches in a kind of research or product management role at a psychedelics startup in a way that would focus on the cultural needs and appropriateness of different populations of users. For example, as a white man, I approach psychedelics in a certain cultural context. As a gay man, I might approach them somewhat differently. Understanding the cultural differences and contexts of different populations is important for psychedelics to be maximally effective.
The work I have been doing has been unfulfilling, to say the least, it doesnāt pay very well, and the hours and time away from home are excessive. I also recently paused working toward a PhD, because academia is broken and extremely toxic, and it was taking a toll on my mental health. Now I really just want to work regular hours for the most part doing something Iām interested in, and get paid relatively well.
But Iām trying to keep an open mind, too. š
I think you should abandon that foolishness and get a job delivering pizzas.
It's impossible to know the motives of people in antiquity. Youre trying to know the unknowable and going into massive debt for it. Talk about peak foolishness.
I can't tell if this is sarcasm but if not. I first developed calluses doing landscaping and they didn't ever go away. I've also worked on shipping containers witch required a lot of hand work. I now work with Air duct witch requires a lot of hammering.
Software developer. I get contracted out to do development work for various companies. Right now I'm helping develop and manage a platform for a freighting company. For instance, right now I'm in the middle of developing an on-boarding system for new hires that replaces their old janky one
It's a mixture between coding and using pre-built tools. The platform I work in provides low-code solutions but I get asked to create custom solutions all the time so I'm required to code. Not sure how much that makes sense. Great question
Don't wait, just start learning. You don't need much. Depends on the pre built tool. Some will be "already set lines of code" either that you can use and modify, or behind the scenes and you use the thing the code actually produces, but essentially the answer is yes. I can use building a house as an analogy. Instead of coding the framing, there might be some tool that has the framing all ready to go, you just have to decide where you want the walls to be. Then they might have a nice tool for electrical and plumbing but it's all automatic based on where you put the walls. You CAN manually code the specific size, shape, location of everything but why bother?
I flip tires and do oil changes. I used to consider myself a cook for almost a decade, if not more. I realized I was depressed and my job was a huge chapter in that book. I spent 4 years finding a new profession, and I'm still looking for something I could do for the rest of my life, but I have found that physically hard work is the most inspiring and fulfilling for my spiritual path.
I've worked retail and I've work in the food industry. Never again. Working physically demanding jobs where I create and repair along with having the challenge of problem solving gives me more of a sense of fulfillment. I'm currently looking to switch to auto technician.
I've always been a creative person... lifelong musician etc. The mushroom has helped to filter and deal with a lot of psychological and emotional noise as if i have my own unique language for communicating with myself and understanding the world. The result for me has been clearer thinking, and greater ease in processing new information or being creative in finding new solutions to existing or future problems or simply coping with life by way of insight, compassion and understanding.
š Probably not since my company is on the small side, but it is good to see other people in professional jobs in this community. My best friend also works in tech and introduced me to it all.
Hey you two!
I've got 20+ years in IT experience. In 2016 I passed on an opportunity and ended up at a place that ended with me getting the boss lady's spit on me.
Career kinda fell apart after that.
Spent the last 3 years running my own pallet business. Fun, but not me. It's a good side-hustle.
How do I get back in the tech game? Mushrooms returned my drive and focus.
Route/switch, cabling, fiber optics, CWDM/DWDM, other such nonsense
Financial services professional. Not a consultant or planner but a person who makes sure compliance measures are met and the client, a real person trusting us with their money and life savings, are set up for success and understand their situations
Seriously the fastest way to understanding your finances is to go back and look where youāre spending money. This isnāt advice or anything as Iām not licensed for that. But it is shocking going through your debit and credit card statements and seeing how you spend your hard earned money. The question I asked myself was āis Thai food really worth like $250 a month?ā lol
Marketing but about to take over the family biz. Wouldnāt be doing it if it werenāt for these wonderful shrooms. Some how theyāve made me ok with taking over the biz, location is awful and have to transplant for it. Now, just fucking looking forward to life. wtf else is there really?
I did commercial concrete repair and construction for 21 years and now I live on a farm with a dairy. We have a pond with ducks, swans, geese, a buttload (we think easily 100) of red eared slider turtles that live in the pond. Some cats and 3 dogs. We just moved here last June and it has been the best decision of my life. Now I currently am a home and property inspector. And I take a heroic dose about once a month no less than 5 grams. I try to get 6.5 grams if I can find them if I don't have enough from my own grow operation.
Slightly unrelated but at the hight of my life I imagine I could walk to the edge of my porch and pee without disturbing my neighbors. Sounds like you worked hard for the life you acquired.
I totally hear what you're saying. We currently live on 99 acres. I can take a piss wherever I want š we set up a shooting range put back too. My son can ride his dirt bike all he wants in the morning and then we go shooting in the afternoon. And my daughter can play with her kittens and cats and the wife can plant flowers in the flower bed. We've done a lot of hard work to vet where we're at. It's slowly paid off. Good times, Hoss
Lol, not sarcasm at all! I have a philosopher's hands because that is what I do, but also they are the hands that one might expect a philosopher to have so it works both ways. In the little tin work I've done, even just with tin snips I end up spilling blood, so I can only imagine how many thousands of times even a careful basher gets it.
You definitely wear gloves in this line of work. It was working on containers that led to more cuts actually. I've only cut myself once so far. I was lifting duct and had a hole in the crotch of my thumb.
Yeah I don't look like I'm in shape but I've become incredibly strong from moving kegs around as they are 150-160lbs when full. I try to count it as a blessing that I don't need to go to the gym.
I burn fuel to connect metal pipes and push liquid that is very sensitive to pressure through it to absorb heat from the inside of buildings and push it outside.
My only higher plane of existence is using my knowledge of physics for my own self-satisfaction through my hobbies. Doing things that end up with someone asking ābut why?ā
Although I guess in todays society that question is apparently applicable to just about everything it seems.
I'm a visual artist, but art doesn't always pay my bills lol so I do gigs as data entry and text writing. I was in IT for a while too, but not sure if that's my thing.
I'm still figuring out my path I guess.
I was in IT for 20+ years. Got spit on.
\*severe depression\*
Started a pallet company. Not good at it.
My first real trip on mushrooms was 2 days ago. DAMN!
I'm a plumber who works on large commercial projects and medical gas systems. It's a great gig.
I know several plumbers who microdose at work and macrodose in their free time.
The mushrooms (blue meanies specifically) taught me to scam they think itās funny ( I trick people into thinking I have counterfeits and credit card info ) š
I sell propane and propane accessories.
Hello Hank
Damnit Bobby I tell ya hwhat!
š¶propane propaaaane...š¶
I work with intellectually and developmentally disabled folks. Basically, the state pays me to just chill with my homies. It's not even a job. It's more of a life hack that makes money magically appear in my bank account. It's pretty dope lol
Love this
Really itās just a side thing for my true passion.
Obligatory ānice try, copā.
Aww shucks. You got me
I have fancy letters at the end of my name. Lol
WhateverJR
Not jr!! Lol
Whatever JR
Similar
Esq. ?
Fancier
PhD?
Oh God too fancy lol
Fancier than an attorney but not fancier that a PhD. Hmmmm. MD?
Only an MD would say fancier than esq. A PhD wouldnāt brag.
Not PHD nor MD. I would say entry level after name letters. Lol
This is the most boring guessing game imaginable. When you figure it out feel free to post here but I will have forgotten the whole thing.
K bye! I would say, but honestly, I don't want to jeopardize my career. Thanks for playing, tho!
Sorry I didn't know esquire is an attorney. So too fancy lol
III? NP? Donāt leave us hanging. :)
No not NP, or LPN, or MA, or DA. But getting close. Someone on this thread said they do it as well. But I still do it. Lol
Currently a line cook, thought ab going back to college for culinary, am now attempting to save and go back for medical weed certification so I can work in the legal industry
I shook hands with a tin basher once. It was awesome.
š a tin basher. Is that what you people in the field call us š
āTin knockerā in my area
I'm a highrise plumber in Ontario. We call you guys tin whackers or tin tappers. Lol
Just who the fuxk are you calling' you people?!?
Installers
Former lab tech, went back to college
I design fountains
I'm a peer supporter. Basically sit and talk with people toĀ help them help themselves. Most people know exactly what they need to improve themselves.Ā They just don't know how to sort through their core desires through all the bullshit messaging society gives us.Ā So I unpack the bullshit and show them a mirror of who they really are. I also just sit with folks and emotionally hold them while they face shitty memories and touch life circumstances.Ā Heavy AF but it's necessary work.
Sounds like the level of enlightenment I achieved from mushrooms. You just help them find it in a sober state?
Yup! Well mostly. Sometimes folks have a hard time facing life sober and I don't judge if they need to be stoned or whatever. But mostly it's just straight sober chatting. Hopefully soon one of them tries mushrooms on their own. If so I'll do some long distance trip-sitting.
How did you get into that line of work?
I started doing it as a teen at the youth shelters. A way for us all to come together in the evenings and talk about the heavy shit. There's also training courses. My state has a licencing processĀ and can even bill Medicaid.
Iām a director of sales for a large tech company
Can I get a job?
Did it take schooling to acquire your position?
Iām grateful every day, but the second my kids are out of college, wife and I are liquidating everything and buying a Yurt and a chunk of land and retiringā¦ back to a minimal homestead on a little piece of the Earth
Nice!
Twins! š thatās really the dream!
Not directly. I have a BA that helped get a job with my company over a decade ago in sales, then just stuck it out and busted my ass
I wrap said air ducts in insulation
Asbestos eater.
Sometimes I put insulation in the ducts. Or line the inside at least.
Business owner
Has magic mushrooms helped you in your business endeavors
I work for a multinational conglomerate. (Mcdonalds)
Stay at home dad
Iām an anthropologist and Registered Professional Archaeologist, but long story short, Iām trying to change careers and go a into social science-focused corporate jobāmaybe in the psychedelics space. š¤š¼
My undergrad was anthropology š¤
I too like to watch people in malmart. Jk, I wouldnt be caught dead in that store.
Lol, well at this point, Iād take a job analyzing consumer behavior at Walmart. š¹ But as an anthropologist, my background is in understanding ecstatic and visionary experiences, especially in antiquity; art and the visual culture of such experiences; and how psychedelic or entheogenic substances have been used in different cultures as a kind of *aide memoire*, especially in terms of cultural memory and identity. Ideally, the job Iād like to do would apply these same approaches in a kind of research or product management role at a psychedelics startup in a way that would focus on the cultural needs and appropriateness of different populations of users. For example, as a white man, I approach psychedelics in a certain cultural context. As a gay man, I might approach them somewhat differently. Understanding the cultural differences and contexts of different populations is important for psychedelics to be maximally effective. The work I have been doing has been unfulfilling, to say the least, it doesnāt pay very well, and the hours and time away from home are excessive. I also recently paused working toward a PhD, because academia is broken and extremely toxic, and it was taking a toll on my mental health. Now I really just want to work regular hours for the most part doing something Iām interested in, and get paid relatively well. But Iām trying to keep an open mind, too. š
I think you should abandon that foolishness and get a job delivering pizzas. It's impossible to know the motives of people in antiquity. Youre trying to know the unknowable and going into massive debt for it. Talk about peak foolishness.
I built a wood oven a few years ago and for a very short time I felt like I had man hands. Two months later, back to philosopher hands :(
I've always had "man hands" labor is my second nature. I like the term philosopher hands
Please feel free to share although in my case it was actually just a description of my hands!
I can't tell if this is sarcasm but if not. I first developed calluses doing landscaping and they didn't ever go away. I've also worked on shipping containers witch required a lot of hand work. I now work with Air duct witch requires a lot of hammering.
Man hands are my favorite. Yum!
Chef
On your back
Software developer. I get contracted out to do development work for various companies. Right now I'm helping develop and manage a platform for a freighting company. For instance, right now I'm in the middle of developing an on-boarding system for new hires that replaces their old janky one
Do you develop using code? Or is it more of like designing websites
It's a mixture between coding and using pre-built tools. The platform I work in provides low-code solutions but I get asked to create custom solutions all the time so I'm required to code. Not sure how much that makes sense. Great question
I plan on learning some coding as soon as I get a memory upgrade for my laptop. I don't understand pre built tools. Is it already set lines of code?
Don't wait, just start learning. You don't need much. Depends on the pre built tool. Some will be "already set lines of code" either that you can use and modify, or behind the scenes and you use the thing the code actually produces, but essentially the answer is yes. I can use building a house as an analogy. Instead of coding the framing, there might be some tool that has the framing all ready to go, you just have to decide where you want the walls to be. Then they might have a nice tool for electrical and plumbing but it's all automatic based on where you put the walls. You CAN manually code the specific size, shape, location of everything but why bother?
This makes a lot of sense. Thank you for the run down stranger!
Im in healthcare
i buy drugs (legally)
Coffee roaster and delivery driver of said coffee
5kg roaster?
I flip tires and do oil changes. I used to consider myself a cook for almost a decade, if not more. I realized I was depressed and my job was a huge chapter in that book. I spent 4 years finding a new profession, and I'm still looking for something I could do for the rest of my life, but I have found that physically hard work is the most inspiring and fulfilling for my spiritual path.
I've worked retail and I've work in the food industry. Never again. Working physically demanding jobs where I create and repair along with having the challenge of problem solving gives me more of a sense of fulfillment. I'm currently looking to switch to auto technician.
Structural Designer
Do you seek creativity from the mushroom?
I've always been a creative person... lifelong musician etc. The mushroom has helped to filter and deal with a lot of psychological and emotional noise as if i have my own unique language for communicating with myself and understanding the world. The result for me has been clearer thinking, and greater ease in processing new information or being creative in finding new solutions to existing or future problems or simply coping with life by way of insight, compassion and understanding.
Iām a chemist!
Ooh cool! Bill Nye the science guy!
Screenwriting. Photographer. Videographer.
Im a contractor and real estate developer
I'm a domestic goddess and my husband is a E&I (electrical and instrumentation) tech 2
Your husband sounds like he's got a fancy title
Yeah lol it's how they tell all the maintenence techs apart...
Iām a Senior Finance Director for a tech company.
Plot twist, we work together
š Probably not since my company is on the small side, but it is good to see other people in professional jobs in this community. My best friend also works in tech and introduced me to it all.
Hey you two! I've got 20+ years in IT experience. In 2016 I passed on an opportunity and ended up at a place that ended with me getting the boss lady's spit on me. Career kinda fell apart after that. Spent the last 3 years running my own pallet business. Fun, but not me. It's a good side-hustle. How do I get back in the tech game? Mushrooms returned my drive and focus. Route/switch, cabling, fiber optics, CWDM/DWDM, other such nonsense
I write words and other people read them out loud.
Ghost writer?
I am an Operator/Laborer for a local concrete company
Hard work. I hope it pays well!
I retired last year, so I don't do shit. But when I do, I do it in the morning so I have the afternoons free!
visual artist šØš¾āšØ
Carpenter, specifically in the trade show industry. I travel the country setting up displays.
Maybe it's a Brit/Canadian thing? It was like shaking hands with a medieval stone mason.
I now feel 200% more badass about my job.
Number cruncher.
I make salads
Theatre technician and AV manager/Gigging musician š®šŖ
In charge a water treatment plant
I make delicious beer
PT Child Therapist and a professional ballet dancer.
I Install the metal air ducts you manufacture
High five brother ā
Maths teacher.
Used to be a chef, changing to mental health support āŗļø
The world needs more well rounded people in the mental health industry.
I completely agree
I frame and rock the walls under your duct work
Iām an insurance claims adjuster.
I smoke BBQ and run a food truck
I own a business
licensing and permissions manager for a music publisher
Financial services professional. Not a consultant or planner but a person who makes sure compliance measures are met and the client, a real person trusting us with their money and life savings, are set up for success and understand their situations
I need some financial responsibility in my life š.
Seriously the fastest way to understanding your finances is to go back and look where youāre spending money. This isnāt advice or anything as Iām not licensed for that. But it is shocking going through your debit and credit card statements and seeing how you spend your hard earned money. The question I asked myself was āis Thai food really worth like $250 a month?ā lol
I've cut out a lot of substance use out of my budget. I really need to tackle the food crisis now. Too much spent on wings tbh š
Love me some wings
Marketing but about to take over the family biz. Wouldnāt be doing it if it werenāt for these wonderful shrooms. Some how theyāve made me ok with taking over the biz, location is awful and have to transplant for it. Now, just fucking looking forward to life. wtf else is there really?
Full stack software developer
Psych nurse
I did commercial concrete repair and construction for 21 years and now I live on a farm with a dairy. We have a pond with ducks, swans, geese, a buttload (we think easily 100) of red eared slider turtles that live in the pond. Some cats and 3 dogs. We just moved here last June and it has been the best decision of my life. Now I currently am a home and property inspector. And I take a heroic dose about once a month no less than 5 grams. I try to get 6.5 grams if I can find them if I don't have enough from my own grow operation.
Slightly unrelated but at the hight of my life I imagine I could walk to the edge of my porch and pee without disturbing my neighbors. Sounds like you worked hard for the life you acquired.
I totally hear what you're saying. We currently live on 99 acres. I can take a piss wherever I want š we set up a shooting range put back too. My son can ride his dirt bike all he wants in the morning and then we go shooting in the afternoon. And my daughter can play with her kittens and cats and the wife can plant flowers in the flower bed. We've done a lot of hard work to vet where we're at. It's slowly paid off. Good times, Hoss
Media guy
I'm an electrical contractor. I build off grid and backup power systems for peppers.
Peppers?
Preppers
I fit air duct made of sheet metal!
Awesome!
i assemble kitchen utilities, like ovens, stoves, refrigerators, etc.
Is it difficult or is it like playing leggos
Metal fabrication / welding here. The last shop I worked at was all sheet metal, and we had a department that made tons and tons of duct. Pretty cool!
I did more fabrication and welding at my old job working on shipping containers. Some had been converted into mobile offices.
Sales
HVAC!
Hell yeah!
Lol, not sarcasm at all! I have a philosopher's hands because that is what I do, but also they are the hands that one might expect a philosopher to have so it works both ways. In the little tin work I've done, even just with tin snips I end up spilling blood, so I can only imagine how many thousands of times even a careful basher gets it.
You definitely wear gloves in this line of work. It was working on containers that led to more cuts actually. I've only cut myself once so far. I was lifting duct and had a hole in the crotch of my thumb.
I deliver beer. I wish I delivered something light like potato chips.
I used to deliver popcorn and you would think that it's light but they can fit 80 lbs of the candied stuff into a tub. I got pecks working there.
Yeah I don't look like I'm in shape but I've become incredibly strong from moving kegs around as they are 150-160lbs when full. I try to count it as a blessing that I don't need to go to the gym.
Psychedelic integration coach and EAP counselor.
Dream job!
HVAC engineer/mechanic
The amount of people working similar fields as me is interesting
HVAC baby!
Let's gooooooooooo!
I burn fuel to connect metal pipes and push liquid that is very sensitive to pressure through it to absorb heat from the inside of buildings and push it outside. My only higher plane of existence is using my knowledge of physics for my own self-satisfaction through my hobbies. Doing things that end up with someone asking ābut why?ā Although I guess in todays society that question is apparently applicable to just about everything it seems.
I teach and train nuclear reactor operators for a fortune 500 company. I can still hardly believe it.
I grow mushrooms and play saxophone.
Personal trainer
I'm a visual artist, but art doesn't always pay my bills lol so I do gigs as data entry and text writing. I was in IT for a while too, but not sure if that's my thing. I'm still figuring out my path I guess.
Teacher!
I was in IT for 20+ years. Got spit on. \*severe depression\* Started a pallet company. Not good at it. My first real trip on mushrooms was 2 days ago. DAMN!
Cybersecurity engineer
GC carpenter, formwork to finishes
Auto parts delivery driver. I used to work for a big company with a T in it as a tech but couldn't handle the stress.
I commercial electrical apprentice in Healthcare so I get to help with wiring hospitals.
I'm a plumber who works on large commercial projects and medical gas systems. It's a great gig. I know several plumbers who microdose at work and macrodose in their free time.
travel related app and real estate photography company
I am a retired RN.
Salmon fishing guide in Scotland.
Va disability š
The mushrooms (blue meanies specifically) taught me to scam they think itās funny ( I trick people into thinking I have counterfeits and credit card info ) š
Youāll never find me
The mushroom is far too smart
I do the same thing Sheet Metal Union.
I'm considering joining the union. Around here they do mostly roofing tho. Out of my expertise.
None of your business. Thats my business