I educated myself when I became a cannabis budtender

Most jobs will train you adequately enough to give you the tools and information needed to work in their facilities.

This was the case with all of the retail jobs I had in high school.

As miserable as it was to work in a superstore, at least they trained me enough where I was wandering around like a moron everyday no knowing what I’m supposed to do. When I waited tables at restaurants the manager gave me the menu to take home and study while explaining all of the food variations offered. If a customer asked me about the specials, I knew right away what was offered each individual day. This all changed when I left the food service industry to work in my state’s nascent medical marijuana industry. For years I dreamed about someday working in a medical cannabis dispensary. However, things didn’t exactly turn out like I initially expected. It was terrible from day one because we were always blamed by patients if a product was out of stock or if there were any issues related to their online order. I expected the marijuana dispensary to train me about the products they carry but I wasn’t even given the time to learn while I was on the job. Since I didn’t want to disappoint patients asking for my help and assistance with the products sold at the dispensary, I had to educate myself in my freetime to be a better budtender. I spent a lot of time on Leafly and Allbud to learn about cannabis genetics and various products sold in cannabis dispensaries.

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