Hello, I'm Luke - Amateur Artist working in a freezing warehouse

Hey Steemians! I'm Luke, doing my first post on steemit. I heard about steemit through a friend @deathbypenguin.

I've taken a look around steemit already and the concept of it seems really cool - I love to draw, so I hope this can be a place for me to share my art and hopefully gain a following

I'm in my early twenties and living in the South East of England. I work full-time at a warehouse. It's not my ideal job, but it pays the bills and I get a good workout.

Here's a couple of pictures of the town I live in...

Rochester, United Kindom

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Rochester Castle

As beautiful as Rochester is I'm not originally from here, I've spent the past 8 years moving around the South East. I started off in a lovely seaside town known by the name of Herne Bay, home to whats believed to be one of the earliest purpose-built , free standing clock towers. As i neared towards the end of Secondary School my family decided to make the move up to London, Notting Hill and enrolled in school there.

At 16 I began the slippery slope of drug use and abuse. I started off drinking and began to meet the precarious individuals that London had to offer. I initially just tried cannabis as it was the most casual that everyone was doing but the more and more involved I got the harder the drugs I took were. Trying MDMA led me onto wanting to try everything else, to push my limits, I craved the feeling of my brain being fried. In spite of all this, my family decided to move back to Kent due to the people I associated myself with.

So I moved to Rochester, enrolled in and attended college where I met James. It's when I decided to go back to London that down the road from mine I saw James outside of his friends smoking and that's when I was introduced to Phillip. I barely knew anyone but Phillip knew everyone, when we got talking the topic of drugs was brought up and shortly after, it started again.

Here's a list of all of the drugs I've done

• MDMA
• Coke
• M-Kat
• 25-i
• LSD
• Shrooms
• Spice
• Ketamine
• Cannabis
• Xanax
• Speed
• Morphine (Yes acutal recreational use)
• Codeine
• Oxycontin
• Valium
• NOS

I know, that's a lot. One day I woke up and realised I needed to get a grips with reality again, I got fed up of relying on my family for everything so I signed up to Jobcentre and got on the job searching. I went through a couple jobs such as retail and telesales before I got into warehouse work. I've now been consistently employed for over a year, I've gone from living with my family, earning minimum wage to working on decent money and having even moved out of my Mother's house.

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I'm doing well now, moving forward and focusing on the the long-term. Steemit seems like an awesome community, and I look forward to contributing

Thanks for reading!