I’ve been working as a voluntary peer mentor for a year now. Recently, I’ve been thinking about the future and I don’t want to work in recovery at the moment because I don’t want to have a job just for being an ex addict and then being known with my employers as an ex addict.
Whereas I can have a job in retail where I’m not known as an next addict and I’m treated as an employee. There’s a lot of stuff in recovery that as a recovering addict, you don’t want to get involved with, especially if you have other commitments and you can’t…you have to focus on your commitments before dealing with other people’s recovery.