Drug Dealer's Numbers
We all know people who deal drugs or have known people who were dealers.
Question:
How many of these dealers were remotely wealthy?
The myth of drug dealing being lucrative is carried on by people who make money not dealing but supplying the money. Drug Dealers are far far far down the food chain. It is like saying "Wow, Wal-Mart made a shitload of money last year! I bet if I push carts for Wal-Mart I'd be making mega-bank!" ...Hardly.
Let all assume that in the past that I made a large portion on my income selling weed. Me being who I was did it as wisely as possible. I bought in bulk from a safe source; I had only 10 'clients'. A luxury because what I sold was very high quality; I was in a position to refuse customers and had a $50 minumum purchase (I didn't like people always coming to and from my 'office'.) Most of my clients bought anywhere from $100 to $500 at a time.
Was I living large? No.
Did I buy a car? No.
Did It fund my rent? Barely.
Here are the numbers (...hypothetically)
All in all, I was making $700 a month doing very little work, but worrying alot. That is $700 profit; I didn't smoke it, a difference between alot of dealers and the 'hypothetical' dealing me.
So how does that compare to a real job?
When you deliver pizza for a living nobody gets in your car and says "Man, I don't want to be pulled over and there be pizza in here. There better not be any pizza in here!" Was there 'pizza' in my car and I not know it? Yeah, sometimes.
I was one step up from an a car salesman and an AVON cosmetic seller. Only idiots respected you for what you did. "Wow, that is cool! You deal man." yeah... fucking... awesome. not.
How do you get into a relationship with some one when the first question they ask is "So, what do you do? I never see you go to work?" There are two possible answers. 1: "I deal drugs. No, not like that. No... yes, I know I drive a honda hatchback. Yeah, it sucks." answer 2: "I saved up a bunch of money from my last job."
No health insurance, high risk of prison terms, often time while being social people assumed I was working, no unemployment benefits, where most jobs you can steal little things from work this is not one of those jobs. There was no discount. Constant worry, you can't leave your work at work because people are trying to arrest 'you'. It is hard to let loose knowing that you have enough weed to spend a good couple of years in a prison sitting in your 'office'. Once, hypothetically, I buried my stash, hid parts of it in a tree, and got rid of everything all because some idiot called me on my cell phone and said "hey dylan, you got any weed left? I want to buy some. So and so said I you had some." Yeah, not like anybody could hear with a $20 radio scanner. Stupid people infest your life when you deal. Smart people either don't deal or go big and die, see jail cells, or go big. And to go big it takes more than a hand shake and a smile.
Would I sell drugs like I hypothetically did before or work a Subway? Easy, take the job at Subway.
If you know some one that is thinking about or starting to deal ask them three questions:
Why? How long? Then what?
How many successful drug dealers do you know?
anyhow, i just needed to rant. I am not saying don't do drugs, I am saying don't sell drugs.
dylanSnow.info
Question:
How many of these dealers were remotely wealthy?
The myth of drug dealing being lucrative is carried on by people who make money not dealing but supplying the money. Drug Dealers are far far far down the food chain. It is like saying "Wow, Wal-Mart made a shitload of money last year! I bet if I push carts for Wal-Mart I'd be making mega-bank!" ...Hardly.
Let all assume that in the past that I made a large portion on my income selling weed. Me being who I was did it as wisely as possible. I bought in bulk from a safe source; I had only 10 'clients'. A luxury because what I sold was very high quality; I was in a position to refuse customers and had a $50 minumum purchase (I didn't like people always coming to and from my 'office'.) Most of my clients bought anywhere from $100 to $500 at a time.
Was I living large? No.
Did I buy a car? No.
Did It fund my rent? Barely.
Here are the numbers (...hypothetically)
All in all, I was making $700 a month doing very little work, but worrying alot. That is $700 profit; I didn't smoke it, a difference between alot of dealers and the 'hypothetical' dealing me.
So how does that compare to a real job?
When you deliver pizza for a living nobody gets in your car and says "Man, I don't want to be pulled over and there be pizza in here. There better not be any pizza in here!" Was there 'pizza' in my car and I not know it? Yeah, sometimes.
I was one step up from an a car salesman and an AVON cosmetic seller. Only idiots respected you for what you did. "Wow, that is cool! You deal man." yeah... fucking... awesome. not.
How do you get into a relationship with some one when the first question they ask is "So, what do you do? I never see you go to work?" There are two possible answers. 1: "I deal drugs. No, not like that. No... yes, I know I drive a honda hatchback. Yeah, it sucks." answer 2: "I saved up a bunch of money from my last job."
No health insurance, high risk of prison terms, often time while being social people assumed I was working, no unemployment benefits, where most jobs you can steal little things from work this is not one of those jobs. There was no discount. Constant worry, you can't leave your work at work because people are trying to arrest 'you'. It is hard to let loose knowing that you have enough weed to spend a good couple of years in a prison sitting in your 'office'. Once, hypothetically, I buried my stash, hid parts of it in a tree, and got rid of everything all because some idiot called me on my cell phone and said "hey dylan, you got any weed left? I want to buy some. So and so said I you had some." Yeah, not like anybody could hear with a $20 radio scanner. Stupid people infest your life when you deal. Smart people either don't deal or go big and die, see jail cells, or go big. And to go big it takes more than a hand shake and a smile.
Would I sell drugs like I hypothetically did before or work a Subway? Easy, take the job at Subway.
If you know some one that is thinking about or starting to deal ask them three questions:
Why? How long? Then what?
How many successful drug dealers do you know?
anyhow, i just needed to rant. I am not saying don't do drugs, I am saying don't sell drugs.
dylanSnow.info