Then I had to borrow $50K from my parents to hire a lawyer to defend myself. They impounded my pets from inside my home and turned it upside down looking for piles of cash that existed only in the detective’s imaginations. I had never been arrested before so it was pretty traumatic to open your office door to a fully armed SWAT team. As soon as you are arrested you are treated as if you are guilty in jail. It was eye-opening to see the inside of the criminal justice system in our country. I was then arrested and sat in a freezing jail cell in a skirt for around 18 hours before they gave me something to eat. I was denied access to an attorney while continuing to be questioned by detectives in violation of my rights.
They took everything under a sealed search warrant. At the time I had 20 people on staff and they all filed for unemployment. We also got raided by the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office in 2016, less than a week before California voted to legalize cannabis. But really being the most overtaxed and over-regulated business in the world without normal access to banking has been the main source of my daily stress. I had some early conflicts with the founding brothers about how things needed to be done and came close to quitting on a few occasions. I determined quickly that I am not a master grower. Eventually, the two founding brothers that started the farm decided they were done, so I took over completely in 2013.
I did everything until I could hire someone else to do it. Then I was answering phones, budtending, inventory management, doing accounting, marketing and running some deliveries. Shortly thereafter I was figuring out delivery logistics for them so they could expand. The following week I was doing farm chores and getting paid in flower. I stumbled into the cannabis business by luck I was working on a few projects from home when I requested delivery from a new service I wanted to try and ended up talking to one of the owners for a few hours about the possibility of me working with them. I had a dog walking business on the east coast for a few years in a past life and although it turned out to be challenging in ways I could never really overcome, it planted the seed that I needed to, and could successfully be, my own boss.
#Sespe creek collective how to#
The work was interesting but the culture really wasn’t a good fit for me, so I quit in 2011 to figure out how to be able to work in line with my passions again. I moved to California in 2009 for a job in business development and design research at a product design consultancy. Sespe is one of a few places i have worked, i am proud to be apart of.Today we’d like to introduce you to Chelsea Sutula.Ĭhelsea, please share your story with us. I try my best daily to give the most i can, as an employee. I will be ever so Grateful for this opportunity that Sespe has given me. It is such a great sense of self worth when a customer is so overly grateful for the help and knowledge we learn and share. The look of wonder some have when they become aware of all the products and the overall power Cannabis has on helping people. Overall, the best part of this Business is helping people. One of the hardest things about this job, is staying informed about all the products out there and where to get the right information for the products. My co-workers are some pretty knowledgeable people, who are great with helping each other and customers with almost any need. There is always something to learn or do. To the good old social side, such as the discussions about strains and dosages.
I originally wanted to get into the Cannabis industry for cultivation, and have learned so much more from the Medical ailments and what products work best. Now i am the Receiving / Inventory Manager. I have even been asked to take over as Lead driver.
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I have also been a delivery driver as needed when others couldn't any longer. Staying visible on the sales floor, while others did other things. Like the food service industry, working at Sespe, as a budtender, i was always moving, restocking products, updating menus, restocking bags, printer paper, and taking out trash as needed. Upon starting at Sespe, i have been encouraged to learn and grow in the areas of interest and given the support i need in areas i have some need for help with. This change has been, one of the most positive chooses i have made. Two years ago i changed careers from the food service industry to the cannabis industry. Grateful to be apart of something Specail.
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