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A Brief Inquiry Into A Long Time Away
🕑 Added 2021-04-20 04:34:15 +0000 UTCDon't worry, I will never be saying farewell to Patreon.
The month of April has been the craziest month of my life recently. Endless changes, disruptions to my routines and a wrench thrown into my 'free time', as if I had any.
As most of you know, I work a day job. I am a manager at a cannabis dispensary here in California. Over the past year my title has been the Co-Manager of Operations, working in Beverly Hills. My job entails keeping the business compliant with the Bureau of Cannabis Control, METRC (Marijuana Enforcement Tracking Reporting Compliance) as well as the local and state laws, municipalities and ordinances surrounding cannabis. I was in charge of managing the inventory, product movement and all compliance pieces of the business. I held that job over the past year and during that year I have asked to be considered for 7 General Manager positions that I unfortunately was not considered for due to politics of the company at the executive level. However, at the beginning of April that all changed.
One day while I was at work I got a call from my District Manager saying "We need you Downtown... now." I was on my lunch break at the Beverly Hills location, quickly wrapped up my lunch and headed back home. I took Kylea for a short walk and shot over to the Downtown location just four and a half blocks away from my studio. Two weeks straight of 7A.M. to 10:30P.M. without a day off and endless interviews in between. Finally, last Thursday I got the news that I was offered the General Manager position at the Downtown location. Since I have accepted the position I have yet to still have a true day off to where I can feel and be creative. Now, this will not be the new normal for me. A long story short, the entire staff at the Downtown location was fired for stealing and I have to rebuild the entire staff, get the business compliant with the Bureau of Cannabis Control and METRC as well as train an entire thirty-five person staff. I have my work cut out for me but in the long run, it will be good.
I miss creating, I miss posting on Patreon and I just want you all to know I have not forgotten about you or Patreon. I have simply just not had a second to myself in just shy of a month.
Normalcy will come soon and I think we will both be excited about it.
- AW Media
