How marijuana helps me run my tech company
Hi, my name is Luna Prey! I'm 17 years old, and I run a small online tech company. My company is made up of highly competent programmers, designers and a small marketing team. We are a year and a half old, and I often find myself quite stressed either at my team, or clients themselves. I also run a successful online web community called Sociopath community.
Obviously, it's almost never a good idea to let your team or clients notice this. It's also not a good idea to live an unhappy, stressful, and unsatisfying life. Yet life itself is a struggle. Capitalism is a framework from which a business can be built, but this framework requires unrelenting energy, and this energy only comes from passion, and love of what your doing. If we find ourselves stressed and unsatisfied with our lives, it's very likely that passion for what we are doing will be lost.
By smoking Marijuana, I find I'm much more able to roll with the punches, and enjoy life all the while. I remain ambitious, I remain passionate about what we are doing, and I have complete confidence that this business will continue to grow.
When it comes down to it, a web development business has no costs other than the costs of skilled labor. If you're like me, and a web developer, and you run your own business, it's not difficult to keep the company financially afloat if we assume you don't have to pay yourself. We can also assume you're paying your team on a project basis. So what is it that determines the success of such a company? A company that can't die because it has virtually no costs. The only thing required is the passion, and motivation to find the clients, and complete the projects. In a case such as this, it requires strength of mind. It requires years of honing our skills. Learning new technologies, and developing our own new technology so that we are better able to accomplish our client' s website goals.
We as Humans are not made for this society we exist in. We evolved to exist in small clan based societies. Evolution never anticipated technology. It didn't anticipate capitalism. For this reason, in business we cannot rely on our emotions and instincts to drive our decisions. We must use reason. We must understand that the human machine is flawed. When our bodies become stressed because of something that exists only within our head (such as a designer missing a deadline), we are literally making ourselves sick for no reason. Simply because the body doesn't understand the situation. It never evolved for such a situation. This is why we marijuana is essential. It is a free ticket out of a stressful situation. It is a way to maintain our reason even when faced with extremely stressing news.
The only thing that happens to me when I get high is that things are less boring. I'm happier with where I'm at, and I'm happier in the moment, and also I'm able to realize things I wouldn't have had I not smoked marijuana, though that could be simply because being high just gets myself out of my way and lets me think about things I normally wouldn't.
Without weed I get stressed and upset because I feel as if I'm not making progress in my life. I feel worthless you could say, and I become depressed, and even suicidal. When I smoke, I can just enjoy the day and before I know it I'm good to move on with the project or whatever I'm working on.
It makes it much easier to be patient with my team, and clients because I'm much less frustrated at how slow things are going, more understanding, and more willing to relax and let time pass even though I'm not accomplishing as much as I'd like.
I'm happy I found weed. I have a perfectly clean criminal record. I don't drink alcohol, or do hard drugs. I even do my best to avoid coffee, junk food, soda, etc. I buckle up each time I get in my car, and I never do 5 more than the speed limit. I pride myself in my ability to make good decisions that will benefit my future. Marijuana is one of them. :)
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