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How much would you need to be paid for quitting drugs?

bunnymunro

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I am curious, and I have often asked the question myself, especially since the spectre of drug testing looms over many workers lives.
The question is, how much would you consider quitting drugs for, ... say you have a $100 000 job but you decide to take a punt that you will not be randomly tested the first two days of your swing, is it worth a puff on the pipe at a social event, or whatever your DOC is?

Would you continue to smoke mull if they were to stop you getting your dole payment?

Would be interesting to make it into a poll.

How much would it take to stop you taking drugs, or to take the risk of being caught?

Per annum,

30-50k?

50-75k?

75-100k

100-150k?

No amount would stop me from taking the risk.

:?
 
The more pay you to stop, the more cash you'd have on hand to blow on drugs ;)
 
Just a though, captain Brewster, is it possible that giving up may be a cure for anxiety and depression?

A fitness regime or meditation maybe? I am not saying that it is or is not, just putting it out there...
 
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No money.

Just a permanent cure for anxiety and depression.
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My post would have been the same word for word, Cap'n.

And I know this was not addressed to me, but:

Just a though, captain Brewster, is it possible that giving up may be a cure for anxiety and depression?

A fitness regime or meditation maybe? I am not saying that it is or is not, just putting it out there...
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Can't speak for the Captain, but I can say from experience that I've it all - from TOTAL sobriety (for 15 months at the longest stretch), to hardcore exercise (lifting and cardio at the gym three to four times per week for over a year), to meditation (best thing i ever started, and still do it), radical diet changes with plans drawn up by (expensive) naturopaths and nutritionists, chiro, physio, osteo visits for back issues (which I later virtually removed myself via the gym - built up my back and core muscles and problems went away)....

I've worked in one industry steadily for a decade and had good working relationships with all my employers and co-workers. I've had long term relationships. I've lived abroad and travelled to over seven countries.

I've been on and off anti-depressants and anti-anxiety meds for approx 16 years.

And what was the point of all of it? Trying to feel normal, to not be tortured by horrible depression. Some things help a bit, but nothing gets rid of it. The best I've found is just a vicious cycle of opiate use as a band-aid cure. But that's more effective by light years than anything else.

So, yeah, no money. Money's not the point. I'd be miserable with ten million dollars as I am now with nothing.

Side-rant: I can't see another doctor or specialist ever again if they don't ask me, straight away: "What have you done for yourself to work with resolving this issue?". NOBODY has EVER asked that question, and instead assume that I've done fuck all but sit on my ass taking drugs and wasting life away. Then when they start talking about "You need to be more active, join a gym, get out and meet people..." blah blah. If they'd fucking asked me they'd know how ridiculous that shit sounds.

PS. Bunnymunro, I'm not attacking your post. No intention of that at all. Your suggestion was totally valid, it just triggered a rant from me. Sorry.
 
Sorry my pic was a joke, I'd want at least 5 times that amount……..

Just kidding, I hardly take drugs anymore really, mostly beer and coffee these days, those are the only 2 drugs I do with any regularity these days.
 
Halif, no absolutely no offence taken, in fact I found your post most fascinating thank you. You have no idea how relevant it is to me at present.
 
I don't think any amount of money would make up for the pleasure I obtain from drug usage. I could never sell out.
 
I feel at this point that my drug habits have pretty much guaranteed that I can't really enjoy much without them, even though I usually only use them on weekends I still spend the entire week looking forward to them and feel depressed if I don't have some kind of weekend drug use planned. I'm starting to think its a problem mainly because I'm constantly in debt and broke and thinking about drugs most waking hours

That said I recently got back into age of empires 2 And that seems to have completely replaced drugs as the principle occupier of my mind, at least for the time being

I go to the gym regularly and work full time, but I'm also looking to start more hobbies like taking up a martial art and hunting, so hopefully that goes well
 
If one found their ideal occupation, even if it meant quitting, I'm sure they would. One of my best friends has known since childhood he wanted to be a pilot, and the threat of random drug testing looms constantly. He loved a choof as much as anyone else, and would probably be a weekly user now, but he decided hiss dreams were more important. In reality the fact he's replaced it with drinking is a whole other story. Now, he won't be getting a decent salary until he has been a pilot for a loooong time, and he knows this, but he made the choice to give something up in exchange not so much for money but an ideal (if that makes sense.)

As for myself, I hope to be a writer, so if I can re-instate some sort of post-gonzo era of literature, I'll probably be more successful the MORE drugs I do (a-la-hunter Thompson.)

Blessing or a curse, I'm not sure.
 
As for myself, I hope to be a writer
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Oh, then you actually HAVE TO take a boatload of drugs. I'm pretty sure the lecturer said that in my Professional Editing course at university.

(He did, actually. I recall him spending a rather long time, lovingly recalling his forays into drug sampling in earlier years, and kind of drifting off mid-sentence, then chuckling to himself while the auditorium collectively rolled their eyes).
 
Personally, I am not sure what my cut off figure would be... At present I try to compromise, cutting off drugs four days before the start of a month on swing, and not using for that month, which is ideal really, in regards to health and tolerance, and financial issues.
I think that this would be similar to a lot of FIFO workers.
If however they were to introduce, say follicle testing, I don't know how I would go.
 
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