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Are you a successful drug user?

Yeah, I'm successful by conventional standards but it leaves me very unsatisfied. Got a highly paid high pressure job which eats into my private life with 50-60 hours a week. Now I'm at a crossroad.

I recently produced an epic fuckup, burning an enormous amount of money in the process. In my strange little world this means that my bosses are very pleased. Someone who is capable of producing something impressive -even if it's a trainwreck- is marked for promotion. The peter principle at work.

At the same time I got a call from people I know at uni, they'd set me up in research. Ridiculously low paid, less responsibility, would be much more fulfilling though (at last something productive!).
The only substance I managed to get addicted to in years of drug use is money, and the only thing my brain had to suffer permanent/major damage from was being some fixer/hack/management type. So, I'm afraid doing the right thing -going back to uni- would make me unhappy. Does this make sense?

Edit: The only drug that I feel held me back was weed. Sorry to say that but those cliches about lazy stoners are true in my book. Weed made me achieve some things months and years later, it's poison to dedication and work ethic.
 
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I would consider myself sucessful for my age right now. I'm 18, own my own house, own two vechiles, I never have to worry about money, I'm the supervisor for my dads company. All without a highschool diploma (: but I'm only a half drug user since I only smoke weed and use drugs rarely.
 
SomeKindaLove said:
Drugs ruined my life ... school, relationships, self-image, every single facet of my existence. And I was very talented at drugs ... very knowledgeable, had all the best connections, and so on, and so forth. I had everything a drug addict could want ... steady hookups, good drug buddies, beautiful women who thought my self-destructive was totally hot ... whatever I wanted. It was a fun time while it lasted, though, truly the best of times and the worst of times. I'm only now picking up the pieces. One day at a time. I'm now in a position where I can help others with similar experiences, and I find that I'm very good at it. Every drug I did built character, and let me be who I am today, and, at some level, I am thankful, and wouldn't take any of it back. But on the other hand, I could have very easily wound up dead or in prison, and I know a lot of people who did. I also know quite a few successful drug users, so-called, or, as we call them, "righteous dope fiends." It's a gamble, I suppose, one that I wouldn't really say that I've lost. What a long strange trip it's been.
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I made this post almost 3 years ago, and I would make almost the exact same post today, only amplified. I dunno if I could honestly say that I feel like I won, either.I just lookat my experiences as experiences. Stories t otell one day.

But I have a good job now, and I don't really fuck with drugs these days in any major way.

But as far as the retrospective goes, the past 3 years were a lot like the 10 years prior ...

Goin around, goin around, goin around ...
 
well let's see:
i'm an addict. an opiate addict to be precise- oxycodone.
i just finished up a medical program and am now a certified surgical technologist.
i've always had a job up until last october when i was laid off.
the store i was working at closed down shortly after.
it was okay though because it came just before my clinical rotation started in school, during which i was working in hospitals every day- just not getting paid.
i guess interning, or whatever.
i graduated this august and am now looking for a job.
unfortunately where i live they are few and far between.
i feel pretty successful other than the fact i haven't found work yet.
but that has nothing to do with my drug use//addiction.
i was on drugs every day during my clinicals and it never interfered with my performance.

so, other than the fact that i don't have much monies, drugs have not interfered with my success. :) to sum it up: yes, i suppose.
 
Considering all the fucked up drugs i've done.... Im fairly successful.

I'm dependent on adderall ... and klonopin.


been off heroin, meth, coke and other shit for about a year and a half

Have had the same job for four years.

Not very stable relationship-wise....

but ya i'm not "un-succesful"
 
no. i became anti social (more than i was before), and put getting high before everything else as much as i'd deny it. if i go bacck to getting high i won't have anything which = unsuccessful, at least for me
 
I've been smoking weed almost daily since 1976. Did plenty of acid, shrooms, blow, speed, reds, quaaludes, PCP, lots of opium, & more 'back in the day'. Started managing a business in 1983 & had my first kid, so I cut back to weed & beer (about 2 cases a week) with the occasional trip or line now & then. Bought the business in 1988 & have run it since, tripling the size. In 2006 I realized that I really missed my drugs and that my abstinence was because I was giving in too much to my wife. So I started having fun again, going to fests & trying new (for me) drugs including N2O (nowadays buying by the case!), NN-DMT, 5-meo-DMT, 2c-x's, 4-APB & kratom, as well as the old standbys coke, shrooms, LSD & various pharmies. Since then I have been the president of the local Chamber of Commerce, president of our investment club, board of directors member of the local branch of a national organization, chairman of a networking group, Cub Scout leader and more. Drugs are a fun and important part of my life, but are primarily recreational & spiritual - I don't use while working & I'm not wasted around my kids... well at least the 19 & 13 year olds. My 22 year old lives in California & works for a grower, so that's a different story!
 
hmm thats a tough one. id say somewhat. its been over 20 years, im not fried, and im alive. i think i must be doing something right. ive still got a conscience, but im very lazy and i procrastinate alot, shit this is a tough fucking question. my final answer would be, yeah somewhat. i actually had to use my brain and really think on this one, and i like that.
 
i quitted school , cause all i did at lessons was sitting and not doin anything being a bit rude to teachers
when im at home i have all these ideas and i remember everything , but when i was at school i couldnt remember much
 
Right now I am accepted into five universities and one being Penn State. If everything goes as planned I will be graduating in June. I believe that would be pretty successful.
 
I've been on dope for 12+ yrs... Just moved to "one" of the dope capitals of the US. I have a great job with a fortune 500 company. I have just taken a hiatus from the dope since I moved here. Mostly due to lack of connections, could be a good thing... Haven't gone out looking. Only done it when it's been in my lap. But b4 I moved I was doing a bundle a day. I still smoke green everyday. So I guess I am sucessful enough! :)
 
Ive got a good job where i get whatever hours i want when i want and i am goin to college now so that i can make more money so i'd say im doin pretty dam good
 
Well I succeed at getting high, so I guess that makes me a successful drug user.

I don't think people can succeed or fail at life other than to live (succeed) or die (fail), so the answer ends there for me.
 
I recently decided I was going to be a musician basically even if it kills me ; I can't really write good songs without drugs. So I am going to HAVE to be a succesful/moderate drug user.... haha
 
still in high school right now, but getting 90-95% in my courses while doing ketamine quite a bit during the week and whatever else on the weekends.
A friend of mine would go to school high on M a couple times a week, rolled and did psychs on the weekends or other drugs including speed and coke, and gradded with 90+ in all his courses. Has gone on to university where he's achieving top notch grades.
We could be doing worse shit, but hey, not bad!
 
Not at the moment. After being laid off for a coupla months, I find myself snorting PV and watching porn instead of my intention of looking at job board sites. Fun though!

I've worked in the professional world as a computer network engineer as well as in the crappy retail world. The funny thing is more people from my professional job were druggies then in the store job. So yes, there are plenty of succesfull drug users.
 
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