Starting at Zero

Perhaps most of us have taken the First Step before ever getting to an AA meeting, but that wasn't the case with me. I went because I was worried about losing a job and blowing my resume, and for a shoulder to cry on but was far short of the Third Tradition, much less the First Step. I guess step zero for me was admitting to myself that should do something about my drinking. I was hesitant to come to AA because the one thing I knew about it was that is was about stopping drinking, not just trying to control it, so I was about as afraid that it would work as I was that it didn't. I would have preferred to go to something like Weekend Drinkers Fellowship, but the only place I knew of that had anything to do with drinking problems was AA.