I’ve had a lot of stress throughout the last couple of months.
I’ve been trying to close a deal at work and I have had to use every one of my days off to persuade the clients. I’ve been out to dinner and to the bar nearly every night with a different client. The stress has really been building up. On Friday I thought I was going to have a nervous breakdown. My boss put a huge stack of papers on top of my desk and he told me to clean up a mess that someone else made. I was already in the middle of one big project and he slapped another big project on my desk. I went to the bathroom and started punching the paper towel holder. It definitely wasn’t my best performance at work, but I was angry and frustrated. One of my coworkers came into the bathroom and he saw the dent on the paper towel holder. He agreed that the boss should be doing more work and the guy said that he had a great way for me to calm down and relax. I told the guy that I wasn’t interested in doing drugs and he told me that marijuana was not a drug. My coworker said that smoking marijuana could help reduce stress. He offered to go out to the parking lot with me at lunch and smoke a marijuana joint to see if it would help reduce my stress. I honestly didn’t have anything to lose with two big projects on my desk and a headache that wasn’t going to go away.