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  • BDD Moderators: Keif’ Richards

What do you do for a living?

i'm a server at a local-owned family restaraunt/sports bar. i get a kick outta waiting tables and this is easily the best/easiest/coolest serving job i've ever had. i really lucked out.

i do not have a family of my own yet and don't feel at all ready for one (i'm a waiter in his late twenties for pete's sake!). nevertheless, i look forward to being a great husband and father someday (i want lots and lots of children). i just need a little more time to figure out what i want to do when i grow up (haha).

going in the opposite direction, i'm very close with the family that i belong to. i'm the youngest of four children; two sisters and a brother (my brother passed away in '07). we all have moderately significant mental health issues but manage them pretty well most of the time. OCD, GAD, MDD, ADHD, Panic, Substance Abuse, Borderline/Histrionic/Narcissistic Personality disorder, Bipolar II (rapid cycling) are all represented among us. genetically speaking, we were born straight into the perfect storm for such things to happen. but anyway, as i said, we all manage well most of the time and the mental health stuff has actually bonded us closely together. i'm super close with my mother as well. she's the most "normal" person on either side of my family by far. i lost my train of thought there, sorry...

anyway, i'm the rapid cycling Bipolar II'er with comorbid ADHD, GAD and Substance Abuse. my Bipolar has gotten worse over the past year so i've quit using a lot of substances i use to use. i've pretty much cut out all downers of any type as the rebound from such use was making me frightfully manic. the only downer i currently take is Klonopin (RX'd; 2.5mg. a day) which i am tapering off of. i've been RX'd stimulants (Adderall/D-AMP; currently 50mg. Vyvanse) for the past 7 years or so and constantly teetered between use and abuse. i've toned down my stim use a good deal recently. no real reason why... just got sick of it i guess. taken the way it's RX'd, it pretty much eliminates a lot of my ADHD symptoms and causes no anxiety. and, oddly enough, stimulants have made me manic only twice. both times i was suffering from a good amount of sleep deprivation (around 80+ hours). also, i smoke a bowl probably every other night or so.

my family knows that i like to smoke MJ and they're cool with it. after my most recent manic episode, i told them all about my past substance abuse; every drug i ever took. they were greatly surprised and really had never suspected a thing. go figure.

this is way too long of a post... i'm pissed at myself.
 
Tickle My Pickle said:
haha great points there. i needa find a new pharmacy so i can start having some fun again lol..i have to stick to my rx'd adderall and i did everything i could to get just a few benzos a month, just so i could fail for them if i got a random UA, and i'll occasionally smoke spice....on a rare occasion i'll do it, but only on a friday in hopes it'll get out by monday or close after. i don't think having an adderall rx will get give me a free pass on mdma and other amphetamines that i could get on the street
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Yeah that's ridiculous you need to worry about that, how often do they make you fill the cup? This is a true story, one of my co-workers had a drug screen and failed for opiates, despite the fact she hasn't taken any type of opioid for a very long time. It turned out the test was a false positive due to her being on the antibiotic Levaquin. Many of the quinolone antibiotics have the potential of giving a false positive for opiates on a standard drug screen. Just something to keep in the back of your head if dire circumstances ever arise.
 
Job?--freelance writer

Do co-workers/clients know? Not really. Some do, and some even encourage it :)

Family?--yes, but they live in another state halfway across the country. I visit them a couple times a year.

Married?--nope, that's not an option seeing as how I'm not in a straight relationship.

My mom and siblings know I use "lots" (in their minds) of drugs, i.e. poppy tea, weed, MDMA, etc. They don't care what I do as long as I don't die or get arrested so it's all good :D
 
Wow..cool stories. :D

I'm pretty normal..twenty-something. I don't work because my hubs works very hard so I don't have to, he's good at what he does and is well paid, and pretty well known to a certain kind of people. We have 3 beautiful children, and I get to spend my day with my 14 month old son who amazes me everyday with the little things he does. We have an (almost) nice house in the little village where I grew up, my 7 YO daughter is like me, attitude and all, although I am hoping she'll grow out of that.
My other half knows about my not-so-serious recreational activities and sometimes joins me in indulging, but that's pretty much it. My "friends" don't know, because they can't be trusted and i'd be labelled a junkie in no time, they also aren't educated enough to understand, although most of them are coke heads, that apparently is acceptable....as sad as that is, I only have 1 good friend, and she's in Australia with a boyfriend that kicks the shit out of her...but that's another story.

I don't have much, but what I have is mine, and I wouldn't swap it for all the money in the world.
 
I'm a working musician, play bars/clubs/weddings/corporate parties/casinos/restaurants/hotels... etc, if they pay well enough I play them.

I freelance (a four stringed instrument), play and tour with different bands as needed but mostly I'm playing with just one band at the moment. I teach music privately on the side, I taught music in a school for a minute but I couldn't handle it, too many teenagers at once!

I make a living doing this and have made a living doing this for almost ten years now, It's been a very up and down journey for me, has kept me very humble, but when it comes down to it I've learned my craft through and through and I'm paid well for my talents, not rich by any stretch of the imagination though.

I can't use drugs the way I used to, it's so easy to mix business with pleasure and I really went overboard for a few years after I let a small success go to my head, this is a fickle business, I have friends who have gone to touring with a famous band to living on their Mom's couch because they couldn't control themselves as far as drugs and drinking went. I also have friends who have done very well for themselves in this business over a long period of time.

I'm rx'd Klonopin, Ritalin and Suboxone. I still use others recreationally sometimes but I don't drink alcohol anymore or smoke pot. I spent so many years drinking excessively every night and being stoned constantly that I'm trying to just get somewhere closer to normal. Opiates are my biggest temptation, this is why the subs are so important to me.

I'm single, couldn't have done this married, too many sacrifices had to be made, maybe in the future.

I have no idea what people think I'm on, I used to play in a group that was well known for doing too much of everything and I've tried to distance myself from that image. I'm still working so that's all I really care about. I know I won't get hired if people think I'm too fucked up so I maintain a professional image and attitude and treat it like the job it is.
 
Interesting the mix of people on here.


Intellectuals...
Wealthy...
"Famous..."
"Junkies"


"Normal..." (if that even exists)

All of my "friends" I ever had in life have all put knives in my back and left me for dead. Now all you guys that give a shit enough to read my posts are now my friends. =D
 
Yeah, I feel that way too.

Everynow and again I think about deleting my entire facebook list, because they're nothing but backstabbing, cheating, hypocrital bastards....

but then I remember that I need them to send me farmville gifts...
 
I'm a college student. My use of illegal drugs is pretty much in the public domain as far as family and friends go. As long as I'm not hawking the living room T.V. and staying in school than it's pretty well tolerated. Over the years I have been prescribed benzos and amphetamines legally, but these prescriptions are far overshadowed by my illegal use of these substances.
 
verso said:
First, your industry is rife with talentless hacks, so I'm not too impressed by your "making it."

Second, you're still just one face in many. "Making it" in my profession is not all that easy a thing to do, either, but others can, have, and will continue to do it. Also, it's something that comes naturally to me. (In the same way that music comes naturally to you.) It's this that keeps me humble.

Honestly, I'd be more impressed by your doing something that does not come naturally do you. (Try a menial job that millions of Americans do every day.)

And just so we're clear, it's the autograph-signing, fan-pandering, less humble artists and musicians that history will soon write off with a flick of its wrist.
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i may be just one face, but i'm one rich face.

and theres nothing wrong with menial jobs, i just happened to follow my dreams of music and money.

and i believe The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and just about every other successful artist were less humble, autograph-signing, fan-pandering artist. so tell me when they become less significant and we'll talk.
 
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K'd-OUT-in-AZ said:
Reading this is proof that prescription drug abuse has almost become our #1 drug problem. Heroin, coke, pot all take a backseat.
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I'm a strong advocate of legalizing pot. Just legalize it and then regulate it and tax it in the same manner as alcohol and tobacco. Just think of all of the revenue that could be generated as a result. Revenue that could be used to make improvements in housing/education/gov't run programs, etc.

No way in hell pot is worse than alcohol, but alcohol is totally legal.

Prescription drug abuse exists to some extent because the gov't has removed and criminalized all other options.
 
Whipped Dream said:
I'm a strong advocate of legalizing pot. Just legalize it and then regulate it and tax it in the same manner as alcohol and tobacco. Just think of all of the revenue that could be generated as a result. Revenue that could be used to make improvements in housing/education/gov't run programs, etc.

No way in hell pot is worse than alcohol, but alcohol is totally legal.

Prescription drug abuse exists to some extent because the gov't has removed and criminalized all other options.
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I completely agree. There is no reason marijuana should be illegal if alcohol isn't. I could go on forever but I don't want to go on a rant.
 
Trustfund baby here. But I'm a hairdressing badass for TiGi Salons (Bed Head), and a part time model for a small local agency.
I make decent cash.
My family is cocaine.
My boyfriend thinks they're all dead.
 
StaySedated said:
hey same here!

if music didn't go so well i'd still have a shitload of $$$.
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I'm married to music. I have a double note on my ring finger.
But if drugs didn't go so well, I'd still have a shitload of money. Haha. It doesn't help that I live on State Street in SB, CA... I hate shopping, but I can't help it.
 
yay. said:
I'm married to music. I have a double note on my ring finger.
But if drugs didn't go so well, I'd still have a shitload of money. Haha. It doesn't help that I live on State Street in SB, CA... I hate shopping, but I can't help it.
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all i can say is having money is good. :D
 
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