It's been a year....
A year ago I failed a drug test for a job. I’d been unemployed for almost a year, and I kind of needed the job as my unemployment benefits were about to expire. The job wasn’t ideal, but it was a job. I’d interviewed with the client, they liked me, it was good to go.. oh by the way…
A friend had me believing that maybe the wouldn’t care about weed, after all i live in colorado, ground zero for weed legalization. The results came back and I was no longer considered for the job. Around the same time, I had a heads up for another job in a few months that I would have liked to have. I stopped smoking with the external motivation.
5 weeks later I got a call back from the contract company, was I still interested in the job? Sure. Still have to take the test. I had been good for 5 weeks, should be good to go, right? Nope, failed again. The people at the lab said said it takes longer than I had thought.
I kept looking for a job, anticipating a new thing in January, so I continued to abstain. By January, the other recruiter had ghosted me, but I was beginning to appreciate being sober. I was sleeping better, i was remembering dreams, I was getting things done around the house that had been sittng, sometimes, for years.
After 3 months, it had gotten easier.
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