When my sister said that she was going to move across the country and start a cannabis business, I thought she was crazy.
I thought it was an insane idea to empty all of her stocks and 401k to start a cannabis business on the other side of the country.
My sister wanted to get in on the ground level. She was one of the first people to open a cannabis dispensary and now she has more than 20 different shops across the state and the West coast. When my sister opened her second cannabis dispensary, she asked me to move out west and manage the store. I was in my thirties and I did not have any children. I told my boyfriend that he could go with me if he wanted, but he chose to stay there. I wasn’t unhappy that the relationship ended. When I got to the West coast, I had a lot of exploring to do. I spent most of my days off going to the beach or the mountains. I wanted to see everything that I could. Then I met a guy and had a baby very quickly. I had another baby very quickly after that. Before I knew it, I was 40 with two kids and still working full-time for my sister at that cannabis dispensary. I told her that it was getting to be too much and she told me that she would lighten my load by providing me with payroll services and employee scheduling. She bought access to a software program that is specifically made for managing dispensary employees. It includes an employee badge tracking system, timekeeping software, time and attendance accountability as well as payroll services.