# First day back to work (outside of treatment:))
**URL:** https://talkingsober.com/t/first-day-back-to-work-outside-of-treatment/163750
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Tags:** work, check-in, sober, motivation, sobriety
**Created:** [May 1, 2023, 11:10am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/first-day-back-to-work-outside-of-treatment/163750 "2023-05-01T11:10:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Sarieloullabelle](https://talkingsober.com/u/Sarieloullabelle)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2023, 11:10am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/first-day-back-to-work-outside-of-treatment/163750/1 "2023-05-01T11:10:27Z")
I’m working for a friend, cleaning, this week. She owns a large company in my city, and she stays pretty busy. I’m excited to start making real money, but a little bit cautious. I know that it could only take one bad day, one second of impulsive decision making, or one seed planted-of a thought that I need energy, pain relief, or motivation from something outside of myself and my HP- to get me back to where I was. Today, as long as I don’t pick up, I’ll be sober, and still well on my way to where I want to be. It’s important for me to remember where I’ve come from and how easily I could revert to active addiction. Most days, I feel like I’m so far from that lifestyle and the woman that had destroyed her life for a buzz. I usually feel as if that life wasn’t my own, but it was and it’s so important to remind myself of the woman I had become. I once did a drug (one time) for 9 years… and I don’t ever want to go back to that lifestyle. I have to remind myself of how far I’ve come, how much I have learned about myslef, and that no addict before me had truly wanted to relapse. If I remind myself to never spare today’s happiness for tomorrow’s pain, I think that I will stay sober.
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### Author:  [@LeeHawk](https://talkingsober.com/u/LeeHawk)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2023, 11:24am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/first-day-back-to-work-outside-of-treatment/163750/2 "2023-05-01T11:24:10Z")
Te-entry after rehab is so challenging. I literally was an hour at a time. Did virtual meetings, read through posts here, whatever I could to not drink. Keep checking in. You are kicking some sober a$$.
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### Author:  [@SassyRocks](https://talkingsober.com/u/SassyRocks)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2023, 12:16pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/first-day-back-to-work-outside-of-treatment/163750/3 "2023-05-01T12:16:31Z")
Bookmark this post or copy it to your phone and come back and read it when you feel shaky. A reminder of what you fight for and how precious YOU and your life is. ✨ Glad you are here!!
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### Author:  [@J\_Lo\_Ste](https://talkingsober.com/u/J_Lo_Ste)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2023, 6:01pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/first-day-back-to-work-outside-of-treatment/163750/4 "2023-05-01T18:01:57Z")
I very much appreciate your patience as i join you in your journey of sobriety. Sometimes I’ll have a goofy response but I’m doing it sober. Goofy response are way better than no response.
In this forum, talking sober , Support is a simple message away