Before I started work in the medical cannabis industry as a budtender or medtender, I was primarily a retail friend at a giant department store for over 10 years. While I managed to get many raises while all of us were in my years at that dealer, I wasn’t entirely gave any upward mobility in the form of promotions to locales like director or lower management roles. It became clear to me that I wouldn’t be triumphant in life until I found a task in a different industry. The hours at this store were all over the locale, plus my own managers weren’t recognizably kind to me throughout the years when I was verbally assaulted by buyers. You can only take so much of this stress before it completely consumes you plus spits you out on the other side. I’ve been a marijuana smoker for a number of years plus regularly dreamed about 1 day working as a marijuana grower. However, I never had a system in mind for how to achieve that dream. When my state legalized medical marijuana in 2016, I saw an opportunity. I wanted to become a budtender plus slowly work my way up in a cannabis company until I could get a junior position at a cannabis growing facility. However, being a budtender wasn’t too different from the retail task I had before. There were a lot more irritated plus disgruntled buyers at the cannabis dispensary than I could ever imagine. That’s when I asked to be put in the cultivation facility, plus I have never looked back. I finally achieved my dream of becoming a marijuana grower plus I couldn’t be happier working for the medical cannabis dispensary.