Painful One, ever think of starting a mushroom business from home? You can learn to grow (legal) mushrooms rather easily, and to a large scale. This is actually one of the several future business plans I have come up with since I got clean (having like a mushroom farm with rare types of medicinal shrooms... and shrooms themselves will probably be legal at that point too). I am an expert mushroom grower haha.
Anyways, just another idea. There is also plagiarism. If you are good at doing other people's schoolwork for money, you could advertise "essay writing" to local universities. Again, this is another future business plan of mine but it is much more complex than that... think global plagiarism secret kingpin lol. Then my essential oils stuff too, and my band I have in mind to create (just need a foxy keyboard player now), and yeah... there is so much you could do from home. You could also do tutoring from home as well, even just English to foreign students online you can make decent money that way.
I have over a month clean now, and I have a date today. I have no had a date in a very long time. I don't know wtf I am doing haha and she was the one who asked me out essentially and gave me the idea for what to do (it's so damn cute for a first date, really)... the the plans she rescheduled for are very cute to me : ) like we are getting teas and chocolate truffles and checking out essential oils (she likes them too), she offered to go with me to get the piercing I want that I mentioned like a week ago no idea how she remembered (I think she talks to our other work friend about me we both talk to haha... safe to assume), and we are going for a cute lunch of course. I am very excited about this... I just had to get out of the other thread because there are too many people down on their addictions there (like the dark side in general I can't go there anymore) and constantly talking about drugs. Also, I can tell from a paragrah who is capable or willing to get clean, and who isn't. I have done all I can there, and like my real life drug addicted friends, I get treated like shit in return. It's cool and all, I'm just never going back to that stupid fucking thread full of junkies who have been "tapering" for several years... a taper takes like a month haha.
I used to do the same thing but opiates don't ever cross my mind anymore... in this past month and longer, I have not had a single craving for them at any time. I think of heroin with disgust and atrocity and regret. I am disgusted by them, so I think the best way for me to encourage other people to get clean is to exhibit how much better my life is getting. I couldn't get a date with a foxy blonde chick for the life of me as a junkie, I didn't even have sex drive, most emasculating thing ever and she is foxyyyyyy, I'm so stoned I seriously have no idea how this happened but I'm just gonna be my silly enthusiastic (about random pointless shit)self and have fun... and my new creative outlets, how much better my guitar playing is, future long term business plans, my mind is still scrambled and chaotic but that's why I am the genius of the operation as my friends say, then we got the businessman, and the tradesman... so that is where I fit into these types of future plans lol. I have a million ideas and one just full of more and more creative ideas that are actually legit money making ideas for like 10 years from now - not even, maybe - but I can't even lift shit and move it around, and am too stoned all the time to be all that responsible. Horrible with money, too, so I am thinking ahead to the future and where I'd fit in with a trio of friends starting a pretty sweet business that will help people.
If you want to keep clean, you better pick up some hobbies, creative outlets (insanely important), open yourself up to new and healthier friends who are not abusive, severely mentally ill and / or junkie drunk addicts (I will never trust a drug addict ever again... junkie is a well deserved title in my honest opinion), find a healthy romance or at least try, make money, find a way to deal with the anxiety and extreme insomnia... get healthy with a good diet and some appropriate supplements... essentially you gotta become a workaholic or you'll sit around and get bored with life and relapse. Also, if you have chronic pain, keep in mind that opiates / opioids are scientifically proven to do fuck all for that with long term use, and pretty much just get you addicted and end up increasing your baseline pain level over time.
I don't even really have chronic pain anymore... I do... but I just don't give a fuck! Cold turkey H withdrawal was WAY worse than a lifetime of chronic pain in my spine. It doesn't matter what opiate it is... I won't touch a fucking tylenol 3, or cup of kratom at that.