This is technically privileged information, but I am working with weed today. I can't say the company is, but a marijuana inhaler is pretty cool no? For some reason whenever I work with this stuff, after about an hour or 2 I am always in a GREAT mood and REALLY hungry. They say there is no way for this stuff to get into my system due to the PPE (Personal Protection Equipment) so maybe it is just a placebo effect.. I don't really care.. I just know I feel better when I work with it. Doesn't matter if it's all in my head or not.
Anyway, people may ask, how could you hate your job.. You leave early everyday, you work with interesting stuff like weed inhalers and high pressure mixing vessels. I say that I just can't take orders anymore. I can't stand it. It doesn't matter what it is.. "can you hand me a pen?" My first mental reaction is "Fuck that!" Am I just an asshole? Could be. I am just not meant to be sitting here doing other people's bidding. I am doing nothing of worth to society, The drug I have been working on for the last 6 months is a generic for a product that has been on the market for 25 years. I am supplying nothing new or useful.. Even the Marijuana inhaler is lame to me.. In my opinion there is and has been a perfectly effective delivery device to the lungs for THC. So even something as cutting edge as that to me is just redundant. This is what drug companies do. One person comes up with an idea, and all the rest copy it, or change it just enough to market it as something different. This industry spends more on patent lawsuits than probably any other. And people wonder why health care and prescription costs are so high... You gotta pay for the 5 years of research and trials, as well as the raw materials, Patent lawsuits, and other production costs once it hits the market. Patent lawsuits are one of the bigger chunks too. It is just a bunch of companies fighting over their little share of the market. They don't care about making you healthy, they just want your money. And before you say that drug companies are just evil and herbal remedies/supplement companies are on the up and up.. they are all the same.. there is a reason why it costs you an arm and a leg to get anything at GNC. They are in it for money too and they don't even have to jump through the regulatory hoops the drug companies do. So tell me why THEIR shit costs so much.
So yeah, you could say I am burnt out. I am through with this industry. I'm not helping people, unless you include my managers getting bonuses and the shareholders getting dividends. I am completely uninterested in what I am doing (I am working with weed and I am completely indifferent) and I am tired of doing what I am told to do and when to do it. So anyway, sorry to all the folks out there that have REALLY crappy jobs.. and have to work 20 hours a day for peanuts. I really do apologize. I realize I do have it better than plenty of people in the world. I am just saying that I don't like what I got, and I want to change it. I'm not being a spoiled brat, I am just being human. I hope none of us just give up and resign ourselves to the fact that "we don't got it so bad." or, "it could be worse." My attitude is simple.. "It could be better, and I am the one that can make it that way."
