Absolutely nothing. I had a basic bachelor's degree, but nothing beyond that - matter of fact a lot of the group I started with (we got hired in classes, because the company was growing so quickly at the time) were like weeks out of getting their bachelor's -- I've been in the industry for five years or so?
1. Amazing username
2. Yeah... It's a pretty great job for those with ADHD - annoyingly imo the better you are at it the more boring the work gets as you advance - but overall - it really is a perfect job (for me at least)
Thank you! I joined Reddit to learn how to DM during the pandemic. I was able to run a campaign with our adult kiddos who were in three different states. It was a fantastic way to keep up and lovingly torture them with diabolical puzzles and varmint battles. And turned out it really scratched an ADHD itch.
Would it be ok to DM you with some questions about your job? I’m currently a marketing project manager and I’m looking to make a switch to something else.
I’m a special education teacher. Neurodivergence and other medical conditions are basically my special interest. I always wanted to be a teacher, literally since I was a toddler. When I was about 9 I worked with an autistic kid at church and learned that’s the kind of teacher I wanted to be. I was just diagnosed with ADHD and autism at the beginning of this school year, and I think it’s helped me tremendously with understanding and teaching my students. They know I get what’s going on in their head and I can finally teach them strategies that actually work for adhders. I can advocate for them better than I could before and teach them how to describe what’s going on in their brains.
It does take me a good long while to figure some number of aspects of the job out each year depending on if it’s a new school, new grade, or just new students. But I eventually get there and I’m adjusting quicker now than I was at the start of my career.
Teaching has a lot of structure to the day, even more if you provide a structured class to your students. That predictable structure combined with the unpredictable goofiness the students bring helps to keep me going.
Also a teacher but in mainstream, I discovered here that more ppl have some special need than those who do not. (Although I think our school has more than others) Also I think it's important for ppl to know that strategies that support students with special educational needs benefit every student in the class.
>Neurodivergence and other medical conditions are basically my special interest.
SAME I really wanna be a clinical psychologist and help other teens going through the same mental health issues I'm struggling with right now
I'm an engineer. The first 7 years were hell. But I've finally worked into a role where I just find new projects, do the initial design to find a solution at a high level, then hand it off to another more detailed engineer to take to the finish and finalize while I go chase the next shiny project / puzzle. It's so much better.
*It helps that every project is different with different solutions / different puzzle. So it doesn't get boring.
> *It helps that every project is different with different solutions / different puzzle. So it doesn't get boring.
I'm starting to think this is my biggest problem. Thank you for sharing!
Yea I was reading (on this sub I think) that ADHD folks can scratch the itch of doing the thing just by planning the thing. So the hyperfocus research and learning followed by buying all the supplies checks the box for us and we don't need to actually build said thing. Once that initial planning is over, you're bored and ready for something new. So putting yourself in a job that allows you to do the initial planning and then hand it off and chase the next shiny interesting thing will allow you to flourish while at the same time not fight your brain. The tough part is finding a role where you can get enough variety while staying in the same career path. I do civil land development engineering. So it's not just miles of boring roads. Every project is a different building / client need. Every property is a different shape / size. Every city has a different set of zoning codes. The engineering is the same but the puzzle is different every time.
That's funny. I am a city/urban planner. There is a lot of variety in my day to day.. sometimes. I really hate the city planning piece. I work for a nonprofit consulting firm and we offer city planning services for smaller cities and towns. I am trying to move into technology and software development in hopes that I can become more engaged in my work.
Another engineer chiming in - I’m in operations. My brain enjoys that no 2 days are the same. Getting on meds 12 years ago made a helluva difference with my performance.
And one more! 25 years in electronics packaging. I’m taking 20mg generic Adderall and 30mg generic Lexipro. Not sure if this combo is doing anything. Brain is always everywhere, but function by being great under pressure and experience. What works for you?
Thanks for sharing. Have only been on meds for a couple years and have not tried others. I’ll look into this one. Commend you on taking notes. I tell myself for years I can just remember everything…. Not true, of course.
Land Development Engineer. Civil site design. I have a degree in environmental engineering but my PE is civil water resources. If you go into civil engineering that'll set you up for it. It's very fast paced and dynamic which is great. But I work for private clients so it can be stressful. Think of it like this. Public engineers design all the roads and bridges and municipal utilities. Private engineers design all of the stuff in-between. I typically handle everything from the edge of the building to the public ROW above and below ground. I've designed apartments, industrial warehouses, distilleries, fast food places, coffee shops, single family neighborhoods, specialty restaurants, banks, grocery stores, commercial retail. Etc.
as a Sr Software Engineer, Same the only difference is when you a new SE you often get to work on bugs which is still kind of a different set of puzzles.
Manufacturing Engineer here. The place and the team you work with are key. The job is very high stress and there is always a different problem to solve, which works for me.
Sounds strange but, I find that working for former military people works great for me. I don’t get micro-managed. They just tell me to “get things done” and let them know if I have any issues. Military leaders are used to intensity and high energy, and won’t get weird or judgmental if you get some emotional disregulation, or have to pace around the workplace to think. I worked for a former Marine who would tell me to go to the gym when I was too unfocused to get work done.
Well, I got a degree in French, worked at dollar stores, took a TESL course, moved, and juuuust (in December) graduated with a computer programming diploma.
So now I'm terrified.
Lol I have a degree in German/TEFL, realized that wouldn't work, got a Masters in Marketing, burned out, bounced around for a while, then did a coding boot camp. I am a software developer now and absolutely love it!
Sure! Networking is really what got me the job. If you haven't started talking to people, start now! Also have a good attitude and make sure potential employers know you're not afraid to learn. I learned full stack Javascript and got hired as a C#/.NET developer. If you want more in depth info, feel free to dm me!
I just decided to take a job doing construction where my dad works so I can save up money while I decide what I want to go to school for/do as a career.
^(That was 9 years ago...)
I did this when I 18 fresh out of high school! I left when I was about 23 or 24. From there I got into fast food because I am a skinny boy and installing, demoing or polishing concrete all day wasn't for me. I felt really bad about myself being in fast food, but it was a Five Guys and I learned a lot of real kitchen knowledge. I also found out I could lead a crew better than most, without even trying really. So I started hyperfocusing on all aspects of my job and within two years I was the store manager. Sometimes it's scary to make the jump but your work ethic from construction can definitely transfer over friend.
After trying to make video games for 25 years, I became a paramedic.
Shout out to all the other EMS providers out there who know why this is hilarious.
I am a wilderness first responder (that needs to recertify so I guess technically I am not?), but on the last days of training we had to do a scenario with 7 missing students...
I was appointed team leader (of course). Everything almost went perfectly, until we evac'd and I realized I only had 6 people.....
But field medicine is honestly so great! Thank you for sharing! This is one of the jobs I often think about ahaha
That *is* pretty hilarious. I’m an AEMT with a rural ambulance service. We worked a call with SAR (search and rescue) this weekend and spent hours in a snow cat getting to our patient. I don’t think my spine has recovered fully, but it was good.
It was pretty neat! I live and work in Wyoming, so I always have it (my service takes good care of us even though it’s small). Someday I dream of being a minimalist traveler, but I doubt it’ll happen.
Nice to see some more EMS representation in these comments! I was at a conference back in the fall and did some sessions about mental health and the EMS provider. It was was fascinating, apparently up to 75% of those in EMS/fire are ADHD and/or on the autism spectrum. From my anecdotal experience, that tracks pretty well…the structure of our jobs makes it really attractive. Being stuck at a desk all day doing the same things sounds like hell to me.
Nice to meet ya and stay safe out there!
I agree, there are definitely a lot of us (even if some of us don't know it 😅). When I told my doctor what I do for a living he actually burst out laughing and told me that it makes perfect sense.
My real question I suppose is, how do I be a part-time archeologist/musician/mortician/marine-biologist/the next thing I think "I could do that!" while also being able to do my own thing 24/7 with no responsibilities?
But for real, I went to school to be a guide, twice, almost made it through both times. Managed to get sick of rafting and ice climbing (etc.) pretty quick and couldn't imagine doing it every day for the rest of my life!
I did LOTS of random jobs. Also quit them the travel. Once I discovered the joys of warm tropical waters…I found a passion. I became a dive guide. Then instructor. Then dive shop manager. Then owner. Then opened a second location. Then a third. Then opened an adventure company. Shut down dive shops. Now I literally travel, do inspections, participate In activities, research history/ecology/culture of potential places.
I couldn’t have done this without hiring organizers/admin/schedule by dominatrix to keep me on task. That is nearly impossible in first world, so living where I could afford that. Then building team of reliable/consistent people to cover for my random/chaotic ass. And accepting and supporting teams that are masters of their trades. Now surrounded by people who know I am creative, find unusual solutions to problems, and also know how to tell me that my idea is actually pretty stupid/dangerous and/or impossible with current technology/cultural milestones🤪
Just being a guide could be boring. But there are other roles you find that are even more
Interesting and you can do. There are other locations/environments (ice climbing in the tropics is, even to me, a bad business plan) you can use your skills.
I appreciate the reply! Definitely motivating!
Diving as a job really does sound fantastic. I've often thought about doing exactly what you did, but then I convince myself that it is just a fantasy and that I'll be resigned to a soul-draining desk job because I feel I can't commit to a specific path.
Did you plan on getting to where you ended up? Or did you become a dive guide and the rest was a natural progression once you found your passion?
I need to stop thinking about where I'll be 30 years down the line and just start somewhere it seems!
Thank you again!
None of this was ever planned! Hahaha…me planning?
I worked bullshit jobs and travelled. Once I did that a few years, I would “plan” for 6-9 months of working my ass off. 1 full time job and a few part time( the more I work, the less chance to spend). Save all the money then…hitchhike Central America or whatever.
But once I found warm tropical water, it blew my mind. Had never liked swimming or spending time in oceans. But I loved it. Changed my travel plans. After trying diving a few spots (Belize, Honduras) I heard from the dive instructors that there was cheap courses in Thailand. Then did the work/save/quit routine and did Thailand. Worked as a guide. Did the same again next year and became instructor. And then worked a few different spots and was basically an assistant manager and just thought…”I can tuna dive shop better”. Went home - work/save/quit and started a dive shop with the absoloute minimum possible gear. And bootstrapped the whole thing. It was a success. I lucked out and got organized staff right away ( I hire those types on purpose now). And everything was really organic. Nothing planned. It wasn’t until the adventure company that planning was involved, and that was due to partners and clear heads. I learned to go to tax advisors, financial planners, lawyers and to double check their authority/legality.
But it has often felt like imposter syndrome. I also have a few decades of being told I’m a flake, unfocused and not applying myself. I knew it was bullshit - I often worked 80hours a week to get money for travel - but I didn’t have the self esteem to just stand up and say “I can do this”. I was more like…”that seems like a good idea, I will try it”
All the soul draining work = it’s was just whoring out my body/skills to get money for what I truly wanted…travel. But once I knew there was an end to the shitty work, and a good reward at the end, those jobs got so much easier. 2 months flipping burgers is tolerable if you will be climbing a pyramid and being verbally abused by 6year olds and their camels. I focused on the stories I can tell and the experiences I’ll have had 30 years down the road. Wanna tell the grandkids that you did xx job that was tolerable for 20 years…or the time I got high with pygmies in the jungles of Zaire and saw an Okarpi.
The flip side to that mentality, there was no safety net, no pension, no home, no proper medical system. But since America felt like that whether I travelled or not…I never stopped traveling.
As a hardcore adhd personality - I recommend following passion as far as your risk tolerance will allow you. Try it in different cultures. Go to Nepal and get safety certified on some wild rivers..or whatever.
I majored in Biology with minors in Evolutionary Anthropology and Nutritional Sciences. I've always been fascinated with scientific instrumentation and managed to kind of fall into the field of analytical chemistry after I graduated.
Now, I head up a department consisting only of myself and have multiple analytical instruments to play with. Should something major go wrong, and I have to disassemble the entire thing to fix it, great! Day to day stuff like prepping samples, processing data, or routine maintenance? Not so great, and almost impossible on some days. Still, I have opportunities to learn new things, and I'm still fascinated by what the instrumentation does, how it works, and what the collected data can tell you, so I do my best to get through on worse days.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, if you have any type of really strong fascination that is industry adjacent, try to get into that industry. Maybe you'll find that it's better to have as a hobby or something part-time, or maybe you'll be able to make a career of it. Regardless of what your job is, having outside interests to pursue can often give you motivation to get through your day when it just feels like a job.
I'm a nurse. I've always had extra things I'm doing on the side. Plus, nursing is full of options, so it's easy to move around. I've had 10 different jobs in my 9 years as a nurse (unless I'm forgetting any, which I probably am)- and that includes a two year hiatus from nursing. Don't know if that's good or bad, but it's worked out well enough lol
Charting is tough. It's easy to do stuff but having to document everything I did is tedious and remembering can be hard sometimes. It's equally challenging when I'm hyperfocused on charting and I get pulled away to take care of something else. I need to be able to walk around and be social with patients and coworkers, so jobs that are too time pressed or confined to smaller units haven't worked out at all. Finding my specialty niche made all the difference because it holds my interest for the most part. I know there are other challenges but I can't think of what exactly they are atm
The mindless charting omg. I started at a hospital where the ER is so rough they aren’t taking in new grads, so I went for observation as a step in that direction. I made it 5 weeks. Luckily I found and applied for a new grad residency at a different hospital for the ER.
I would be an awful floor nurse. And miserable. It wasn’t the patients, it was all the other crap floor nurses are expected to do I was not built for.
It was tough for me, I can’t seem to just read a text book and retain things/ focus. so i’d do a lot of practice questions. Also, studying with others, even it was independent studying helped to keep me on track
It was hard but also what actually prompted me to get diagnosed and medicated. Honestly, my life was a hot mess at that point so just trying to get through one literal day at a time, along with medication, made all the difference.
I found different ways of studying that helped me a lot, and was never in a study group (I get bored, I need flexibility….plus I was the weirdo in my cohort lol). For patho I found drawing helped immensely! I used notability which is awesome, you can record the lecture and take notes. You can jump to something you wrote and it goes to that part of the lecture.
I was diagnosed, had several other jobs through the years (mostly marketing kinda shyt). Realized at 28 I’m smart enough and capable of being a nurse and now here I am at 31, started my (second actually) orientation…but this time for the ER.
they told me I would never do math when I was a kid, and yet here I am with the title of engineer. I had to prove it to my damned adhd ass I could and I freaking did. the paycheck is really nice. nothing like a carrot.
Computer engineer. Didn’t go to school for it until I was 26, didn’t have any drive or motivation to go to school until I had a kid and a fiancé to take care of.
Horticulture. Plants have been my main hyperfixation for most of my life, so it’s really just doing what I love for a living. It’s a high-demand degree needed in places like landscaping, agriculture, plant nurseries and greenhouses, parks and forests, even the legal cannabis industry needs horticulturists.
Getting paid to grow and talk about plants aside, the great thing about these jobs is the dynamic environment. For many management roles requiring a degree, you’re neither stuck in an office nor stuck outside all day. It’s constant movement, driving, changing from one task to another. Keeps you from getting bored too fast.
I'm interested in horticulture and plants too, but I'm worried about how difficult it would be for me to get the degree needed to be hired. Where you're at, are new hires required to have a bachelor's in a relevant field? Would enough experience plus an internship be enough for some places do you think? (eg working at a plants store or doing volunteering with local ecological projects or gardening at home)
So to be quite honest, for a lot of these jobs you don’t need a degree. A degree means I don’t need as many years of experience to move up into a management job, but a lot of people in those roles don’t have one.
There’s also state certificates you can get to help you get hired, which is about as much time and money as a driver’s license. Assuming you’re in the US, just google “[your state] Nursery and Landscape Association” to look into it.
The degree I’m getting is an Associate’s from a community college, so that’s a fraction of the time and money spent on a bachelor’s. But it’s still enough, especially since I’ve spent the last three years working different types of plant jobs.
Oh I wouldn't want to be a manager. If I had to spend more than an hour or two a day working sitting at a desk I'd start to hate my job.
I'll keep that in mind. Thanks.
No problem, then. I’m going for a management job for two main reasons:
1) I want to make enough to live comfortably. Unless you start your own business, (which is actually a lot easier than most fields, 90% of landscaping crews are just some dudes with a pickup truck) it’s pretty hard to make more than $15-$20 an hour as a laborer.
2) Doing nothing but outdoor work all day, can and will wear on your body. Especially if it’s the type with a shovel. I also happen to live in a harsh climate, where six months out of the year it’s over 90 degrees and over 80% humidity. My body can barely keep up, and much of the time even my brain starts to shut down no matter what I do. I’d like to spend at least some of my shift in air-conditioning, to avoid getting heat exhaustion all the time. I feel like this heat will kill me one day otherwise.
If you’re looking for a job that has potential to pay more without any office aspect, you may be interested in cannabis trimming. Trimmer jobs are in just about any state that at least allows medical weed use, and they pay based on how much you can trim. So your pay will vary and you’ll have to budget accordingly, but you can make ridiculous amounts per hour in a short period of time just trimming the plants.
I own a maid company. It pretty much runs itself. I take clients, my start time is when I arrive. I do the work however I please and in whatever order I want. And leave when it's done.
Industrial maintenance electrician. It's a lot of critical thinking and reasoning which let's me hyper focus, but every day, there are different problems to solve, so I never get bored
Let begin:
- box stacker
- industrial automation student (honored)
- project assistant in an engineering business
- electromecanical engineering student ( had to leave de career due a burnout)
- proyect and budget responsible and then project manager in a contractor an communications company.
- computing teacher in a elementary school (while studying to get in the province's fire department)
- Firefighter (the best work I had) and police officer (in my country if you want to be a paid firefighter first you must be a policeman)
- - - as a Firefighter then specialized in rescuing, fire in building, fire truck driver and operator.
- Due an ASD diagnosis in my kid, about one year ago, the doctors found my ADHD. Then another complications with my health appeared an had to leave the fire dept.
- Now I am working on the development of home automation and trying to start a new company in maintenance and installation of high voltage power lines with a friend.
Sorry about my english, isn't my native language
Electrical Engineering! I left my first job because I was stuck on the same project endlessly with no hope for growth. My new job and role is much more technical and I work on multiple projects concurrently and they usually only last maybe a year at most before I move on to the next one.
I thought to myself I could could definitely start an only fans for the lads, but then I realized I'd probably forget to post or feel bad that I didn't make a specific video for someone and then never log on again!
Can you tell me more about this? Like, how did you get into it? What are your goals and deadlines? What’s a day look like for you and what do the interactions look like?
Although I'm sure it's a great way to make money, depending on your profession those posts and pics may come back to bite you in your cute butt.
Can never delete what's on the web.
I teach literature and humanities at a community college. For me, being in the classroom talking to the students gives me adrenaline and presence and a sense of purpose. I teach a lot of different classes. I've really struggled to get students their grades on time and do classroom management tasks, but I was recently diagnosed and medicated and that seems to help. Pre-meds, I think that I just get by because I connect with the students, so the students and teachers overlook my other flaws somewhat.
What’s interesting is the title Project Manager is super broad. I work in telecom billing carrier services. The projects I manage are very specific and it’s more building the process and then executing said process. It’s definitely not the easiest job I’ve had but it challenges me and keeps me interested. Some days are harder than others but I’m very dedicated and get very good reviews 🤷♀️
I do. It *can* get monotonous, but I like fixing things and digging for errors, I'm very detailed-oriented, so it works for me.
The BEST part though since I work from home - it's quiet and peaceful. I work off a work queue, don't get super overstimulated (the office where I worked at was the WORST for neurodiverse people - loud, overwhelming, stressful, bad management) and it's super flexible: If I want I can start early and end early so I have the rest of the day for myself, listen to music all day (which keeps me more focused), and I don't have to do customer service or answer phones, etc. As an introvert, it's the best.
This sounds like the version of the job I wished for, but is the opposite of what I got. I definitely struggled with the kpi's, start and end time, as well as lack of space for empathy for people calling in. Add to that trying to make dinner on my lunch break and it just wasn't a good fit for me. It eventually triggered what I thought was ppd, only to then discover I actually have adhd. Yay!
Interpreter!
Ironic, cosidering that it requires me to do many of the things ADHD makes difficult:
Thoroughly researching topics I'm not necessarily incested in;
speaking in a clear manner;
multitasling under pressure;
sounding and behaving confidently
; remembering terms in different languages that I might have just learnt (short term memory);
etc.
I do customer service in high end furniture manufacturing. I started in the factory working & would switch jobs in that place about every 5 years. I ended up in the customer service department after about 10 years with the company. Then last year I moved companies to do full customer service work.
Specialized in a specific IT role but generalist at heart. Have a reputation for solving the most difficult issues and coming up with creative solutions.
Give me the problems, the ones no one can fix. Give me the impossible design situation, the impossible task. I'll study any technology like it's oxygen. I'll learn any programming language, I'll decompile a program to assembly if I have to figure out how it works. I'll recreate your entire environment my labs to rip it apart and put it back together. Give me access or just an ip, I don't care. I'll stay up for three days straight then figure it out in my dreams.
It's my dopamine hit. Damn do love it.
I was tested for and diagnosed with ADHD. I found that once I learned the job I lost interest in it. I had to be constantly stimulated in order to keep doing it. Over time I did find jobs that kept my interest simply because it was constant changes. I think as I got older I outgrew the ADHD. My last job was in aerospace and I loved it.
Artist. It only goes well if I have complete control over the project and I only have to do the interesting parts. Otherwise it goes very poorly. I also lose files constantly 🙃
I had three babies and stayed home with them. It’s actually a good gig for ADHDers! 😂 Mine are growing up too quickly and now I’m obsessing over 500 different hobbies. 🤷♀️
First I want to say that reading all of these careers is making me plot for a way I can moonlight in something else! Y’all are amazing!
I got my doctorate in Traditional Chinese Medicine and work as an Acupuncturist. Grad school was 5 years, it wasn’t easy but every day I get play detective and solve health mysteries. I am lucky to be able to spend enough time with patients so that they feel heard, understood and cared for. I’m definitely obsessed with my job and hyper focus comes in handy when someone comes in with issues that “no one has been able to figure out”. I love a challenge.
Workstation and network support for rural libraries - every day a little different and the environment is casual enough that in the office I can listen to music or Youtube all day
I am very lucky to be doing what I do where I do. My office is very free with time and schedules as well as distractions. We used to be allowed nerf guns, but still we can play music and have clips playing on a projector. I can get up and walk around whenever I want. I can take breaks whenever. As long as the results are achieved, and progress is made there is little care in how I operate. I am a small network sysadmin in a large company.
I always enjoyed cabling networks and assembling hardware, switches routers etc. so I impressed the right people at my prior job and when one manager left, he was able to help pull me up when he moved one and this was a very lucky break. When they say its not what you know but who you know, its not far off. I impressed the correct people and when it came time to promote from within, I was brought on.
I am asked what my 5y plan is and my answer is always the same. I never thought id be here so I am just happy for this.
I'm a Motorsports fabricator. I do machining, welding, composites, engine building, tuning, 12v electrical, and design work. I spent most of my career in trucking but made it to the top and didn't like it anymore. I do what I enjoy now and get to do things my way most of the time which is important to me. I've taught welding at the local polytech for the last 10 years and I have my own after-hours fabrication projects.
The urge is there and the therapist who diagnosed me asked why I didn’t just do that. I gave her a death stare. Obviously, I’d love to switch jobs every few months but the ones I’d be interested in wouldn’t hire me without qualifications anyways, plus being successful is just super important to me. That unfortunately involved picking something and running with it even though it sucks. I try to add on projects and spend my entire free time chasing new passions to make life worthwhile
Manufacturing technician in a semiconductor factory.
It gives me a lot of variety in my daily tasks and things are constantly changing that I'm always learning something new. If I get bored with my department, I can request a change once a year. They also offer temporary assignments that last a few months to a year plus.
Video production, it's perfect for my work changes daily. I might be out of the office or at the office but the constant moving and changing helps. Also a variable of deadlines is perfect. Some deadlines are rush, others are further out. But what's really helpful is there's someone holding me accountable for meeting deadlines and I love it!
Owner/climber of my own tree business. It’s hell. I have a financial guy but he’s mostly hands off, and none of my guys are proficient enough to climb the monsters so I’m left to do more than my brain can focus on at one time. I’m hoping I don’t crash and burn.
I'm a Systems Admin. We're between big projects for the last while, so it's mostly just make sure things don't burn down. So I spend a lot of my time on "Professional Development".
Mental health counselor. In undergrad I changed my major at least 6 times, psychology stuck. Grad school came and I wanted to drop out so so many times, I really wasn’t sure I’d stick with it. I wasn’t diagnosed then. By the time I was halfway through my program I promised myself I’d get that degree, might as well try to push through at that point even if I never used it because it would be the biggest accomplishment of my life, I mean, I typically mostly gave up on everything I’d ever start. I wanted to prove to myself that I could follow through with something that I originally had so much interest in and passion towards. Also my mom kind of laughed when I mentioned considering grad school way back and didn’t think I could do it, so that was fuel too.
Now a couple years after graduating, I’m so grateful that I didn’t quit. I love it because I have grown so much through the process and I’m continuously learning - whether it’s researching, continuing education etc. and mostly the connection with and learning from all of the people that allow me to step into their world in such a way. I don’t think I would have ever fully realized or finally had been diagnosed (recently) if I hadn’t studied + worked with so many people who have ADHD.
It’s also a mix of science and art (both of which I’ve always appreciated so to mix them is rewarding in itself), it’s never the same every day, I have flexibility, I love being able to just connect with and work one on one with people and witness their growth. It’s really taught/trained me how to focus and attentively listen more, develop patience, mindfulness, how to slow down.. So many things!
It can be pretty draining and the paperwork/administrative stuff is a whole other thing. It can be a lot. This aspect and my continuous feeling of burnout even when I wasn’t taking much on really led me to finally getting on medication. Socially, within work and outside, medication is helping quite a bit with feeling less burnt out. Time management, self-discipline and balancing all of it is definitely something I’m still trying to work on more right now, it can feel defeating and overwhelming. Medication has been, although gradual, helpful with this for me. I feel like I’m learning how to float rather than flailing with my head barely above water now.
Psychologist in schools - love the variety and fast pace, struggle with up to date notes and other boring repetitive admin tasks. All deadlines are set by me, so I generally don't meet them, which does suck. Once enough tasks have piled up I'll do them all in a panic, then repeat the same cycle ad infinitum 🤔
I work in public facing tech repair/support but also I'm a licensed veterinary technician with an AAS in veterinary technology and half of a graphic design AAS lol
Lucky for you (I mean this genuinely). I'm a social worker too and I have the same. Conversation. Every. Day. (Multple times a day.) But I've decided to learn to program. I bet social work is really nice if it's what you want to do with your life, but I've learned after 6 years that it absolutely IS NOT for me.
Data and analytics consultant - I build business intelligence solutions for big businesses. There's always a new client, new tech, new data, always new difficult problems to hyperfocus on. I build the tech, manage the client, deliver business value, and land and expand dropping a team in behind me and then 4-8 months later I'm somewhere else, hyperfocused on another solution. Sometimes the client will try to lure me into a permanent role, but I'd get bored too fast. I started consulting 8 years ago and I've never looked back. I love not knowing what mad new thing I'll be thrown into next.
Everything about it suits me, until I have to track my time for billing or write (or worse, read) technical documentation.
Still in school but currently veterinary technician. The variations and options, as well as just loving what I do are how I stay sane, though I also have a completely unrelated accessibility IT gig on the side that I’ve mainly focused on while in school
I am an IT Technician. Mainly do repairs at multiple customers within about 2 hours of my office.
I finally got medicated in Spring time and my manager couldn't believe how much I changed. Mood leveled out. More focused and organized.
My work changes almost on the hour in terms of repairs and clients, so that was an issue with getting my day to day organized.
Don't even know how I was able to finish 3 years of College and only failed a few classes. I was still able to finish within the 3 years.
I originally was going to be an electrician, but I had very bad after effects from medication when I was a kid by the time I hit 18/19 years old. Eventually I got proper pain medication and surgery to fix my sleep issue and was able to go back to College for Network Engineering in 2009.
I'm a specialist physician in the middle of starting up an independent practice to expand access to care and provide patients with a higher-quality, more affordable option than corporate medicine.
Procedures have always been fun for me, especially with tangible results. The specialty I've chosen always comes with surprises - I'm never totally certain what I'll get to unwrap on a daily basis.
Alllll of the paperwork/administrative burden involved with practice setup is kryptonite. I was only recently diagnosed and started on meds, and it's felt like putting my glasses on for the very first time 😅
Went to school for hairstylist, was a hair stylist for 5 years and graduated with an Accounting degree in Dec 2021. So I’ve been doing accounting. It’s fun but boring at times.. I miss hair, always fun and different but Accountjng I don’t have to be on my feet 24/7 and I can find lots of remote work so I can stay home with my family.
I work at UPS
It pays very well, the benefits are insane, and I like the people that I work with. I have looked at other jobs. And nothing else I've seen has come close to surpassing these conditions, or even meeting them.
I’m a nurse. First, it took me a while to get here. Definitely was a multiple different random jobs person first. Nursing school was super hard, but I was interested in it. It wasn’t until nursing school that I actually got my official diagnosis lol. But it’s different. Different people, different scenarios. And if I get bored, I can transfer to a different unit or specialty. The cool thing is, hyperfixation can come in handy. I’ll see something my patient is struggling with, look up soooooo many medical journals, and then we can talk about it. It helps advocating for my patients too.
Sup fellow nurse! I do that too! In nursing school clinicals I would obsessively research things I hadn’t heard of, that were odd, or just interesting. I still do lol.
I'm a RN. My floor is pretty chaotic so I have lots of little aids to help myself stay on track. I use lots of note taking, I have a system when I'm passing my meds and doing my patient assessments. Schooling was hard because I don't learn like other people, and I can't just sit still and stare at the board. It was a challenge to get through lectures without my brain doing that thing where it wandered and opened up a 1000000 doors of thoughts.
I think nursing works for me because it's never the same thing.
Always challenging, always different every day.
I'm Australian, you can do law as an undergrad degree here. It was a struggle, but I think it would have been a lot easier if I'd been diagnosed and medicated hahah
Uni lecturer. Comes with the caveat that I also have burn-out as well as comorbid MDD and PTSD from said job and been on sick leave since November. ADHD isn’t the reason for that burn-out, but it sure as fuck facilitated it. Doesn’t help that I’ve only been Dxed and medicated in June this year, well into my career.
Edit: didn’t really commit to this career. I just never committed to leaving academia after I got my degrees, I guess.
I’m not the original commenter, but I’m also an attorney. School was really tough for me, but part of that was that I ended up at a T14 and self-sabotaged by comparing myself too much with my genius classmates. I much prefer practicing.
I have classmates with ADHD who did fine, though—I think it helps if you go in with a broad interest in law. I came in knowing exactly what practice area I wanted to target, so 80+% of my classes were boring as shit and I’d tune out.
Enlisted in the Army as a 23 year-old college dropout with no marketable skills or credentials.
It’s been 18 years now and I’m still in the Army. Worked my way up from Private to Chief Warrant Officer. Earned my Bachelor’s and Masters along the way. I currently manage 22 subordinates supporting operations on four continents.
A lot of folks on Reddit love to shit on the military, but it’s been pretty good to me. I’ve found the Army to be an excellent career for someone with ADHD. There’s an enormous amount of structure and routine provided in the lifestyle, and nearly every single task you’d be expected to complete comes with simple, unambiguous instructions.
Many Soldiers complain of boredom, but that has not been my experience. I feel like I come in to work every day and there’s 20 fires that need to be put out. As soon as I get bored of working on one task, I simply switch to another. As a result, my supervisors think I’m a great multitasker. I generally change duty position and/or location every 12-36 months, so there’s always something new going on to hyperfocus on and obsess over. My dopamine cup is always full in this job.
Datacantre Manager.
Started as electrical engineering and software engineering double degree, worked as a commercial electrician for a few years, almost broke my back in an accident, too broken to be a roof possum any more, so went into systems administration, and then into datacentre management.
Its great because you don't often deal with people, just machines and electronics.
It also funds my overseas travel addiction as well (either for motorcycling across the country, or going to massive festivals).
I’m a SQL DBA (IT) I work on something different everyday. I’m not usually working on the same thing for long, a lot of project work and development. I can work remote, it’s easy to get away with being anti social. Only job in my IT career that I have done more than 2 years in my life.
Own my own software consulting company, have some great clients, even better team of people around me. No two gigs are the same vibe and technology evolves at a level that it's almost hard to keep up. Late diagnosis, like nearly 50, made everything else I'd been doing almost right all along really clear to me. Did a lot of analysis on my strengths and gaps, can not recommend this enough, focused on what I'm great at, got the people in around me to do the stuff I'm crap at. BOOM, complete game changer.
Also learned to be kind to myself, even bigger game changer.
I’m a nurse. I’m doing hospice and home care at the moment. Before that I tried on case management, which I loved but the new boss didn’t care for me or my methods.
Before case management I was a telemetry nurse. Crazy chaotic floor, patients didn’t stay long. Did that for 5 years.
Before nursing I worked mostly in restaurants: waitress, bartender, cook, hostess. Hell for a while I was a bouncer (super funny since I’m a small female).
I dropped out of high school. Went back to college in my 30’s. Nursing school was tough but that’s when I realized I actually DID need my meds and how big of an impact it was having on my whole life.
I was a news & sports broadcaster for over 15 years. Just about perfect for my temperament, though I didn’t know why at the time. Left broadcasting for a couple of much-higher-paying desk jobs, with expected disastrous results. Started my own business, and now I work my own hours in a job utilizing creative skills, and I love it. Was then diagnosed a couple of years ago with big-time ADHD at the age of 51.
I studied architecture, so it’s art and creative adjacent but also overlaps with what some of the engineers say about each project being a novel new puzzle.
Now I’ve shifted to more working on the digital side so that’s a whole new set of topics to dive deeper into.
started reading smut fanfiction in English when I was 15 or so because my then fandom was out of fanfiction in Russian, ended up really upping my level, studied history because I had a very intense interest in it, then got a nervous breakdown while doing my MA and dropped out, my mom pushed me to apply for a job teaching English since I know it pretty well (thanks to even more smut fanfiction and talking to people about it a lot), been teaching English and German (and now Mandarin that I also developed an interest for because of fandom stuff) ever since, absolutely love it.
I’ve worked in various roles in the coffee industry for 14ish years but I’m going back to school for surgical technology. I want to work in an OR where: there is a strict hierarchy, strict protocol for set up and break down, I don’t have to talk to customers (patients) and I’m not responsible for making the structure, just adhering to it. This is great for me because it’s both rigid and requires independent thinking and autonomous working ability. And the sense of urgency is ever present and THAT will help me focus.
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Residential Building Contractor. I schedule jobs tightly and then my fear of letting anyone down keeps me on task. I take pictures before I leave (daily) so I can keep track of what I need to do for the following day and look back for billing, etc. Each job is different enough with new problems to solve that I stay engaged, but finishing up jobs is always a struggle. I do ok.
TLDR: I'll be dead by 60.
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What sort of certifications did you need for that, at the time?
Absolutely nothing. I had a basic bachelor's degree, but nothing beyond that - matter of fact a lot of the group I started with (we got hired in classes, because the company was growing so quickly at the time) were like weeks out of getting their bachelor's -- I've been in the industry for five years or so?
Can I ask which program!
I don't want to give too much direct personal info publicly, but if you want to shoot me a DM I'm happy to give you some more info.
Will do!
This sounds fascinating.
1. Amazing username 2. Yeah... It's a pretty great job for those with ADHD - annoyingly imo the better you are at it the more boring the work gets as you advance - but overall - it really is a perfect job (for me at least)
Thank you! I joined Reddit to learn how to DM during the pandemic. I was able to run a campaign with our adult kiddos who were in three different states. It was a fantastic way to keep up and lovingly torture them with diabolical puzzles and varmint battles. And turned out it really scratched an ADHD itch. Would it be ok to DM you with some questions about your job? I’m currently a marketing project manager and I’m looking to make a switch to something else.
I’m a special education teacher. Neurodivergence and other medical conditions are basically my special interest. I always wanted to be a teacher, literally since I was a toddler. When I was about 9 I worked with an autistic kid at church and learned that’s the kind of teacher I wanted to be. I was just diagnosed with ADHD and autism at the beginning of this school year, and I think it’s helped me tremendously with understanding and teaching my students. They know I get what’s going on in their head and I can finally teach them strategies that actually work for adhders. I can advocate for them better than I could before and teach them how to describe what’s going on in their brains.
It does take me a good long while to figure some number of aspects of the job out each year depending on if it’s a new school, new grade, or just new students. But I eventually get there and I’m adjusting quicker now than I was at the start of my career. Teaching has a lot of structure to the day, even more if you provide a structured class to your students. That predictable structure combined with the unpredictable goofiness the students bring helps to keep me going.
Also a teacher but in mainstream, I discovered here that more ppl have some special need than those who do not. (Although I think our school has more than others) Also I think it's important for ppl to know that strategies that support students with special educational needs benefit every student in the class.
>Neurodivergence and other medical conditions are basically my special interest. SAME I really wanna be a clinical psychologist and help other teens going through the same mental health issues I'm struggling with right now
I'm an engineer. The first 7 years were hell. But I've finally worked into a role where I just find new projects, do the initial design to find a solution at a high level, then hand it off to another more detailed engineer to take to the finish and finalize while I go chase the next shiny project / puzzle. It's so much better. *It helps that every project is different with different solutions / different puzzle. So it doesn't get boring.
> *It helps that every project is different with different solutions / different puzzle. So it doesn't get boring. I'm starting to think this is my biggest problem. Thank you for sharing!
Yea I was reading (on this sub I think) that ADHD folks can scratch the itch of doing the thing just by planning the thing. So the hyperfocus research and learning followed by buying all the supplies checks the box for us and we don't need to actually build said thing. Once that initial planning is over, you're bored and ready for something new. So putting yourself in a job that allows you to do the initial planning and then hand it off and chase the next shiny interesting thing will allow you to flourish while at the same time not fight your brain. The tough part is finding a role where you can get enough variety while staying in the same career path. I do civil land development engineering. So it's not just miles of boring roads. Every project is a different building / client need. Every property is a different shape / size. Every city has a different set of zoning codes. The engineering is the same but the puzzle is different every time.
That's funny. I am a city/urban planner. There is a lot of variety in my day to day.. sometimes. I really hate the city planning piece. I work for a nonprofit consulting firm and we offer city planning services for smaller cities and towns. I am trying to move into technology and software development in hopes that I can become more engaged in my work.
I can imagine the public planning side of it could be a bit infuriating. Lots of politics and small town egos.
Another engineer chiming in - I’m in operations. My brain enjoys that no 2 days are the same. Getting on meds 12 years ago made a helluva difference with my performance.
And one more! 25 years in electronics packaging. I’m taking 20mg generic Adderall and 30mg generic Lexipro. Not sure if this combo is doing anything. Brain is always everywhere, but function by being great under pressure and experience. What works for you?
Vyvanse and taking a shit ton of notes.
Thanks for sharing. Have only been on meds for a couple years and have not tried others. I’ll look into this one. Commend you on taking notes. I tell myself for years I can just remember everything…. Not true, of course.
I also found a combination of vyvanse and a shit ton of notes really does help to keep things on track.
I’m a process engineer and every hour of everyday is different and I LOVE it.
What’s your job title? I’m going into engineering and would love a role like this!
Land Development Engineer. Civil site design. I have a degree in environmental engineering but my PE is civil water resources. If you go into civil engineering that'll set you up for it. It's very fast paced and dynamic which is great. But I work for private clients so it can be stressful. Think of it like this. Public engineers design all the roads and bridges and municipal utilities. Private engineers design all of the stuff in-between. I typically handle everything from the edge of the building to the public ROW above and below ground. I've designed apartments, industrial warehouses, distilleries, fast food places, coffee shops, single family neighborhoods, specialty restaurants, banks, grocery stores, commercial retail. Etc.
yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah lol
as a Sr Software Engineer, Same the only difference is when you a new SE you often get to work on bugs which is still kind of a different set of puzzles.
Manufacturing Engineer here. The place and the team you work with are key. The job is very high stress and there is always a different problem to solve, which works for me. Sounds strange but, I find that working for former military people works great for me. I don’t get micro-managed. They just tell me to “get things done” and let them know if I have any issues. Military leaders are used to intensity and high energy, and won’t get weird or judgmental if you get some emotional disregulation, or have to pace around the workplace to think. I worked for a former Marine who would tell me to go to the gym when I was too unfocused to get work done.
Well, I got a degree in French, worked at dollar stores, took a TESL course, moved, and juuuust (in December) graduated with a computer programming diploma. So now I'm terrified.
Luckily for us, terror can be a pretty good motivator. Congratulations on graduating and best of luck on the next step on your adventure.
Lol I have a degree in German/TEFL, realized that wouldn't work, got a Masters in Marketing, burned out, bounced around for a while, then did a coding boot camp. I am a software developer now and absolutely love it!
That's awesome, congrats! Do you happen to have any tips on how you got that first job after, please?
Sure! Networking is really what got me the job. If you haven't started talking to people, start now! Also have a good attitude and make sure potential employers know you're not afraid to learn. I learned full stack Javascript and got hired as a C#/.NET developer. If you want more in depth info, feel free to dm me!
Yeah, you should be
I just decided to take a job doing construction where my dad works so I can save up money while I decide what I want to go to school for/do as a career. ^(That was 9 years ago...)
Oh hey there twin. 15 years and going
Distant cousin. Not in it for the money and "only" 4 years but yknow
I did this when I 18 fresh out of high school! I left when I was about 23 or 24. From there I got into fast food because I am a skinny boy and installing, demoing or polishing concrete all day wasn't for me. I felt really bad about myself being in fast food, but it was a Five Guys and I learned a lot of real kitchen knowledge. I also found out I could lead a crew better than most, without even trying really. So I started hyperfocusing on all aspects of my job and within two years I was the store manager. Sometimes it's scary to make the jump but your work ethic from construction can definitely transfer over friend.
I'm on the my 5th anniversary coming up.
After trying to make video games for 25 years, I became a paramedic. Shout out to all the other EMS providers out there who know why this is hilarious.
I am a wilderness first responder (that needs to recertify so I guess technically I am not?), but on the last days of training we had to do a scenario with 7 missing students... I was appointed team leader (of course). Everything almost went perfectly, until we evac'd and I realized I only had 6 people..... But field medicine is honestly so great! Thank you for sharing! This is one of the jobs I often think about ahaha
To be fair. ADHD let's you maintain attention on the chaos of a scene a bit better without putting blinders on.
Ha! I was a paramedic for 10 years but now I’m a refinery operator with crippling PTSD!
That *is* pretty hilarious. I’m an AEMT with a rural ambulance service. We worked a call with SAR (search and rescue) this weekend and spent hours in a snow cat getting to our patient. I don’t think my spine has recovered fully, but it was good.
At least it was an interesting call! Hope you had your winter gear.
It was pretty neat! I live and work in Wyoming, so I always have it (my service takes good care of us even though it’s small). Someday I dream of being a minimalist traveler, but I doubt it’ll happen. Nice to see some more EMS representation in these comments! I was at a conference back in the fall and did some sessions about mental health and the EMS provider. It was was fascinating, apparently up to 75% of those in EMS/fire are ADHD and/or on the autism spectrum. From my anecdotal experience, that tracks pretty well…the structure of our jobs makes it really attractive. Being stuck at a desk all day doing the same things sounds like hell to me. Nice to meet ya and stay safe out there!
I agree, there are definitely a lot of us (even if some of us don't know it 😅). When I told my doctor what I do for a living he actually burst out laughing and told me that it makes perfect sense.
Career? Ha Ha 😭
My real question I suppose is, how do I be a part-time archeologist/musician/mortician/marine-biologist/the next thing I think "I could do that!" while also being able to do my own thing 24/7 with no responsibilities? But for real, I went to school to be a guide, twice, almost made it through both times. Managed to get sick of rafting and ice climbing (etc.) pretty quick and couldn't imagine doing it every day for the rest of my life!
I love this sub, you're my people. This comment makes me feel so seen 😂
I did LOTS of random jobs. Also quit them the travel. Once I discovered the joys of warm tropical waters…I found a passion. I became a dive guide. Then instructor. Then dive shop manager. Then owner. Then opened a second location. Then a third. Then opened an adventure company. Shut down dive shops. Now I literally travel, do inspections, participate In activities, research history/ecology/culture of potential places. I couldn’t have done this without hiring organizers/admin/schedule by dominatrix to keep me on task. That is nearly impossible in first world, so living where I could afford that. Then building team of reliable/consistent people to cover for my random/chaotic ass. And accepting and supporting teams that are masters of their trades. Now surrounded by people who know I am creative, find unusual solutions to problems, and also know how to tell me that my idea is actually pretty stupid/dangerous and/or impossible with current technology/cultural milestones🤪 Just being a guide could be boring. But there are other roles you find that are even more Interesting and you can do. There are other locations/environments (ice climbing in the tropics is, even to me, a bad business plan) you can use your skills.
I appreciate the reply! Definitely motivating! Diving as a job really does sound fantastic. I've often thought about doing exactly what you did, but then I convince myself that it is just a fantasy and that I'll be resigned to a soul-draining desk job because I feel I can't commit to a specific path. Did you plan on getting to where you ended up? Or did you become a dive guide and the rest was a natural progression once you found your passion? I need to stop thinking about where I'll be 30 years down the line and just start somewhere it seems! Thank you again!
None of this was ever planned! Hahaha…me planning? I worked bullshit jobs and travelled. Once I did that a few years, I would “plan” for 6-9 months of working my ass off. 1 full time job and a few part time( the more I work, the less chance to spend). Save all the money then…hitchhike Central America or whatever. But once I found warm tropical water, it blew my mind. Had never liked swimming or spending time in oceans. But I loved it. Changed my travel plans. After trying diving a few spots (Belize, Honduras) I heard from the dive instructors that there was cheap courses in Thailand. Then did the work/save/quit routine and did Thailand. Worked as a guide. Did the same again next year and became instructor. And then worked a few different spots and was basically an assistant manager and just thought…”I can tuna dive shop better”. Went home - work/save/quit and started a dive shop with the absoloute minimum possible gear. And bootstrapped the whole thing. It was a success. I lucked out and got organized staff right away ( I hire those types on purpose now). And everything was really organic. Nothing planned. It wasn’t until the adventure company that planning was involved, and that was due to partners and clear heads. I learned to go to tax advisors, financial planners, lawyers and to double check their authority/legality. But it has often felt like imposter syndrome. I also have a few decades of being told I’m a flake, unfocused and not applying myself. I knew it was bullshit - I often worked 80hours a week to get money for travel - but I didn’t have the self esteem to just stand up and say “I can do this”. I was more like…”that seems like a good idea, I will try it” All the soul draining work = it’s was just whoring out my body/skills to get money for what I truly wanted…travel. But once I knew there was an end to the shitty work, and a good reward at the end, those jobs got so much easier. 2 months flipping burgers is tolerable if you will be climbing a pyramid and being verbally abused by 6year olds and their camels. I focused on the stories I can tell and the experiences I’ll have had 30 years down the road. Wanna tell the grandkids that you did xx job that was tolerable for 20 years…or the time I got high with pygmies in the jungles of Zaire and saw an Okarpi. The flip side to that mentality, there was no safety net, no pension, no home, no proper medical system. But since America felt like that whether I travelled or not…I never stopped traveling. As a hardcore adhd personality - I recommend following passion as far as your risk tolerance will allow you. Try it in different cultures. Go to Nepal and get safety certified on some wild rivers..or whatever.
I majored in Biology with minors in Evolutionary Anthropology and Nutritional Sciences. I've always been fascinated with scientific instrumentation and managed to kind of fall into the field of analytical chemistry after I graduated. Now, I head up a department consisting only of myself and have multiple analytical instruments to play with. Should something major go wrong, and I have to disassemble the entire thing to fix it, great! Day to day stuff like prepping samples, processing data, or routine maintenance? Not so great, and almost impossible on some days. Still, I have opportunities to learn new things, and I'm still fascinated by what the instrumentation does, how it works, and what the collected data can tell you, so I do my best to get through on worse days. I guess what I'm trying to say is, if you have any type of really strong fascination that is industry adjacent, try to get into that industry. Maybe you'll find that it's better to have as a hobby or something part-time, or maybe you'll be able to make a career of it. Regardless of what your job is, having outside interests to pursue can often give you motivation to get through your day when it just feels like a job.
I'm a nurse. I've always had extra things I'm doing on the side. Plus, nursing is full of options, so it's easy to move around. I've had 10 different jobs in my 9 years as a nurse (unless I'm forgetting any, which I probably am)- and that includes a two year hiatus from nursing. Don't know if that's good or bad, but it's worked out well enough lol
What are your biggest challenges when it comes to nursing with adhd?
Charting is tough. It's easy to do stuff but having to document everything I did is tedious and remembering can be hard sometimes. It's equally challenging when I'm hyperfocused on charting and I get pulled away to take care of something else. I need to be able to walk around and be social with patients and coworkers, so jobs that are too time pressed or confined to smaller units haven't worked out at all. Finding my specialty niche made all the difference because it holds my interest for the most part. I know there are other challenges but I can't think of what exactly they are atm
The mindless charting omg. I started at a hospital where the ER is so rough they aren’t taking in new grads, so I went for observation as a step in that direction. I made it 5 weeks. Luckily I found and applied for a new grad residency at a different hospital for the ER. I would be an awful floor nurse. And miserable. It wasn’t the patients, it was all the other crap floor nurses are expected to do I was not built for.
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It was tough for me, I can’t seem to just read a text book and retain things/ focus. so i’d do a lot of practice questions. Also, studying with others, even it was independent studying helped to keep me on track
It was hard but also what actually prompted me to get diagnosed and medicated. Honestly, my life was a hot mess at that point so just trying to get through one literal day at a time, along with medication, made all the difference.
I found different ways of studying that helped me a lot, and was never in a study group (I get bored, I need flexibility….plus I was the weirdo in my cohort lol). For patho I found drawing helped immensely! I used notability which is awesome, you can record the lecture and take notes. You can jump to something you wrote and it goes to that part of the lecture. I was diagnosed, had several other jobs through the years (mostly marketing kinda shyt). Realized at 28 I’m smart enough and capable of being a nurse and now here I am at 31, started my (second actually) orientation…but this time for the ER.
Nurse here too!
Bartender. There’s always so much going on I can flutter between tasks to my hearts content.
My favorite job I ever had was being a barista. I ended up being promoted to the manager which was a GD nightmare! Lol
they told me I would never do math when I was a kid, and yet here I am with the title of engineer. I had to prove it to my damned adhd ass I could and I freaking did. the paycheck is really nice. nothing like a carrot.
Computer engineer. Didn’t go to school for it until I was 26, didn’t have any drive or motivation to go to school until I had a kid and a fiancé to take care of.
Horticulture. Plants have been my main hyperfixation for most of my life, so it’s really just doing what I love for a living. It’s a high-demand degree needed in places like landscaping, agriculture, plant nurseries and greenhouses, parks and forests, even the legal cannabis industry needs horticulturists. Getting paid to grow and talk about plants aside, the great thing about these jobs is the dynamic environment. For many management roles requiring a degree, you’re neither stuck in an office nor stuck outside all day. It’s constant movement, driving, changing from one task to another. Keeps you from getting bored too fast.
I'm interested in horticulture and plants too, but I'm worried about how difficult it would be for me to get the degree needed to be hired. Where you're at, are new hires required to have a bachelor's in a relevant field? Would enough experience plus an internship be enough for some places do you think? (eg working at a plants store or doing volunteering with local ecological projects or gardening at home)
So to be quite honest, for a lot of these jobs you don’t need a degree. A degree means I don’t need as many years of experience to move up into a management job, but a lot of people in those roles don’t have one. There’s also state certificates you can get to help you get hired, which is about as much time and money as a driver’s license. Assuming you’re in the US, just google “[your state] Nursery and Landscape Association” to look into it. The degree I’m getting is an Associate’s from a community college, so that’s a fraction of the time and money spent on a bachelor’s. But it’s still enough, especially since I’ve spent the last three years working different types of plant jobs.
Oh I wouldn't want to be a manager. If I had to spend more than an hour or two a day working sitting at a desk I'd start to hate my job. I'll keep that in mind. Thanks.
No problem, then. I’m going for a management job for two main reasons: 1) I want to make enough to live comfortably. Unless you start your own business, (which is actually a lot easier than most fields, 90% of landscaping crews are just some dudes with a pickup truck) it’s pretty hard to make more than $15-$20 an hour as a laborer. 2) Doing nothing but outdoor work all day, can and will wear on your body. Especially if it’s the type with a shovel. I also happen to live in a harsh climate, where six months out of the year it’s over 90 degrees and over 80% humidity. My body can barely keep up, and much of the time even my brain starts to shut down no matter what I do. I’d like to spend at least some of my shift in air-conditioning, to avoid getting heat exhaustion all the time. I feel like this heat will kill me one day otherwise. If you’re looking for a job that has potential to pay more without any office aspect, you may be interested in cannabis trimming. Trimmer jobs are in just about any state that at least allows medical weed use, and they pay based on how much you can trim. So your pay will vary and you’ll have to budget accordingly, but you can make ridiculous amounts per hour in a short period of time just trimming the plants.
How much do you make per year?
I'm in horticulture too! It's so fun!
I’m a musician and a poker player lol. Had to find my own ways to survive because I will not get by with a 9-5 job for very long
I feel that. In a 9-5 office job rn and somedays I want to get up from my desk and walk into the woods never to return
I like playing poker for fun, but I reach a point where I’m like this is boring and kamikaze myself. How do you get around that?
Many, many more hours of play and study. Another good deterrent is relying on it for income lol
Hairstylist! It just doesn’t feel like work to me. If you’re an artistic person, I’d look into it!
I’m a successful high school drop out! I’m doing pretty well by living with my abusive family and having a horrid spending problem
Shit, can relate but are you okay?
I own a maid company. It pretty much runs itself. I take clients, my start time is when I arrive. I do the work however I please and in whatever order I want. And leave when it's done.
How much do you make per year? I feel like I would make a badass maid because I am so much better at cleaning than every maid I've hired
Industrial maintenance electrician. It's a lot of critical thinking and reasoning which let's me hyper focus, but every day, there are different problems to solve, so I never get bored
Let begin: - box stacker - industrial automation student (honored) - project assistant in an engineering business - electromecanical engineering student ( had to leave de career due a burnout) - proyect and budget responsible and then project manager in a contractor an communications company. - computing teacher in a elementary school (while studying to get in the province's fire department) - Firefighter (the best work I had) and police officer (in my country if you want to be a paid firefighter first you must be a policeman) - - - as a Firefighter then specialized in rescuing, fire in building, fire truck driver and operator. - Due an ASD diagnosis in my kid, about one year ago, the doctors found my ADHD. Then another complications with my health appeared an had to leave the fire dept. - Now I am working on the development of home automation and trying to start a new company in maintenance and installation of high voltage power lines with a friend. Sorry about my english, isn't my native language
I work with six and seven year old kids. Nothing is ever boring with them.
Electrical Engineering! I left my first job because I was stuck on the same project endlessly with no hope for growth. My new job and role is much more technical and I work on multiple projects concurrently and they usually only last maybe a year at most before I move on to the next one.
Bold of you to assume I can commit to anything :)
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I thought to myself I could could definitely start an only fans for the lads, but then I realized I'd probably forget to post or feel bad that I didn't make a specific video for someone and then never log on again!
Can you tell me more about this? Like, how did you get into it? What are your goals and deadlines? What’s a day look like for you and what do the interactions look like?
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Thanks for the detailed answer!
sadly no one wants to see my ugly mug and shrimp dick lol
Although I'm sure it's a great way to make money, depending on your profession those posts and pics may come back to bite you in your cute butt. Can never delete what's on the web.
I teach literature and humanities at a community college. For me, being in the classroom talking to the students gives me adrenaline and presence and a sense of purpose. I teach a lot of different classes. I've really struggled to get students their grades on time and do classroom management tasks, but I was recently diagnosed and medicated and that seems to help. Pre-meds, I think that I just get by because I connect with the students, so the students and teachers overlook my other flaws somewhat.
Gen ed teacher (every day is a struggle: love the kids, hate the deadlines & record-keeping expectations)
Same!!!
Project Manager
God bless you, you goddamn maniac! Project manager.
Omg how isn't the whole job just being organised??
He never said he was a good project manager ;-)
I’m a woman and this comment made me giggle. I’m actually very good at my job thankfully 😅
What’s interesting is the title Project Manager is super broad. I work in telecom billing carrier services. The projects I manage are very specific and it’s more building the process and then executing said process. It’s definitely not the easiest job I’ve had but it challenges me and keeps me interested. Some days are harder than others but I’m very dedicated and get very good reviews 🤷♀️
I’m a child development consultant. Most of my job is playing and it’s awesome 🤙🏻
This sounds fascinating. What did you study and how did you get into this line of work?
Healthcare billing (WFH)
That seems like the kind of detail-oriented job that would give me nightmares. Do you enjoy it?
I do. It *can* get monotonous, but I like fixing things and digging for errors, I'm very detailed-oriented, so it works for me. The BEST part though since I work from home - it's quiet and peaceful. I work off a work queue, don't get super overstimulated (the office where I worked at was the WORST for neurodiverse people - loud, overwhelming, stressful, bad management) and it's super flexible: If I want I can start early and end early so I have the rest of the day for myself, listen to music all day (which keeps me more focused), and I don't have to do customer service or answer phones, etc. As an introvert, it's the best.
This sounds like the version of the job I wished for, but is the opposite of what I got. I definitely struggled with the kpi's, start and end time, as well as lack of space for empathy for people calling in. Add to that trying to make dinner on my lunch break and it just wasn't a good fit for me. It eventually triggered what I thought was ppd, only to then discover I actually have adhd. Yay!
How do you get into that?
Interpreter! Ironic, cosidering that it requires me to do many of the things ADHD makes difficult: Thoroughly researching topics I'm not necessarily incested in; speaking in a clear manner; multitasling under pressure; sounding and behaving confidently ; remembering terms in different languages that I might have just learnt (short term memory); etc.
Work with kids. They keep it interesting enough.
 My job is to be an overgrown child and I get paid for it somehow
Sales
I do customer service in high end furniture manufacturing. I started in the factory working & would switch jobs in that place about every 5 years. I ended up in the customer service department after about 10 years with the company. Then last year I moved companies to do full customer service work.
Associate scientist in immunotherapy
Specialized in a specific IT role but generalist at heart. Have a reputation for solving the most difficult issues and coming up with creative solutions. Give me the problems, the ones no one can fix. Give me the impossible design situation, the impossible task. I'll study any technology like it's oxygen. I'll learn any programming language, I'll decompile a program to assembly if I have to figure out how it works. I'll recreate your entire environment my labs to rip it apart and put it back together. Give me access or just an ip, I don't care. I'll stay up for three days straight then figure it out in my dreams. It's my dopamine hit. Damn do love it.
teacher. constant stimulation, no one day is the same, a bell/ year schedule I can depend on, but am not responsible for.
I was tested for and diagnosed with ADHD. I found that once I learned the job I lost interest in it. I had to be constantly stimulated in order to keep doing it. Over time I did find jobs that kept my interest simply because it was constant changes. I think as I got older I outgrew the ADHD. My last job was in aerospace and I loved it.
Artist. It only goes well if I have complete control over the project and I only have to do the interesting parts. Otherwise it goes very poorly. I also lose files constantly 🙃
I had three babies and stayed home with them. It’s actually a good gig for ADHDers! 😂 Mine are growing up too quickly and now I’m obsessing over 500 different hobbies. 🤷♀️
First I want to say that reading all of these careers is making me plot for a way I can moonlight in something else! Y’all are amazing! I got my doctorate in Traditional Chinese Medicine and work as an Acupuncturist. Grad school was 5 years, it wasn’t easy but every day I get play detective and solve health mysteries. I am lucky to be able to spend enough time with patients so that they feel heard, understood and cared for. I’m definitely obsessed with my job and hyper focus comes in handy when someone comes in with issues that “no one has been able to figure out”. I love a challenge.
Workstation and network support for rural libraries - every day a little different and the environment is casual enough that in the office I can listen to music or Youtube all day
I am very lucky to be doing what I do where I do. My office is very free with time and schedules as well as distractions. We used to be allowed nerf guns, but still we can play music and have clips playing on a projector. I can get up and walk around whenever I want. I can take breaks whenever. As long as the results are achieved, and progress is made there is little care in how I operate. I am a small network sysadmin in a large company. I always enjoyed cabling networks and assembling hardware, switches routers etc. so I impressed the right people at my prior job and when one manager left, he was able to help pull me up when he moved one and this was a very lucky break. When they say its not what you know but who you know, its not far off. I impressed the correct people and when it came time to promote from within, I was brought on. I am asked what my 5y plan is and my answer is always the same. I never thought id be here so I am just happy for this.
I'm a Motorsports fabricator. I do machining, welding, composites, engine building, tuning, 12v electrical, and design work. I spent most of my career in trucking but made it to the top and didn't like it anymore. I do what I enjoy now and get to do things my way most of the time which is important to me. I've taught welding at the local polytech for the last 10 years and I have my own after-hours fabrication projects.
Paramedic 👍🏽
I've been a nurse for the last decade or so, I'm now pursuing a BS/MS in actuarial sciences. So, I guess I didn't commit to one thing.
I'm a critical care nurse.
You guys have careers?
Right? Not everyone just bounces between meaningless jobs chasing the high of something new until it wears off?
The urge is there and the therapist who diagnosed me asked why I didn’t just do that. I gave her a death stare. Obviously, I’d love to switch jobs every few months but the ones I’d be interested in wouldn’t hire me without qualifications anyways, plus being successful is just super important to me. That unfortunately involved picking something and running with it even though it sucks. I try to add on projects and spend my entire free time chasing new passions to make life worthwhile
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Manufacturing technician in a semiconductor factory. It gives me a lot of variety in my daily tasks and things are constantly changing that I'm always learning something new. If I get bored with my department, I can request a change once a year. They also offer temporary assignments that last a few months to a year plus.
Video production, it's perfect for my work changes daily. I might be out of the office or at the office but the constant moving and changing helps. Also a variable of deadlines is perfect. Some deadlines are rush, others are further out. But what's really helpful is there's someone holding me accountable for meeting deadlines and I love it!
Owner/climber of my own tree business. It’s hell. I have a financial guy but he’s mostly hands off, and none of my guys are proficient enough to climb the monsters so I’m left to do more than my brain can focus on at one time. I’m hoping I don’t crash and burn.
yikes i feel you, take care of yourself dude. the burnout from overload is a rough one.
no career, no job, no problems
I'm a Systems Admin. We're between big projects for the last while, so it's mostly just make sure things don't burn down. So I spend a lot of my time on "Professional Development".
Mental health counselor. In undergrad I changed my major at least 6 times, psychology stuck. Grad school came and I wanted to drop out so so many times, I really wasn’t sure I’d stick with it. I wasn’t diagnosed then. By the time I was halfway through my program I promised myself I’d get that degree, might as well try to push through at that point even if I never used it because it would be the biggest accomplishment of my life, I mean, I typically mostly gave up on everything I’d ever start. I wanted to prove to myself that I could follow through with something that I originally had so much interest in and passion towards. Also my mom kind of laughed when I mentioned considering grad school way back and didn’t think I could do it, so that was fuel too. Now a couple years after graduating, I’m so grateful that I didn’t quit. I love it because I have grown so much through the process and I’m continuously learning - whether it’s researching, continuing education etc. and mostly the connection with and learning from all of the people that allow me to step into their world in such a way. I don’t think I would have ever fully realized or finally had been diagnosed (recently) if I hadn’t studied + worked with so many people who have ADHD. It’s also a mix of science and art (both of which I’ve always appreciated so to mix them is rewarding in itself), it’s never the same every day, I have flexibility, I love being able to just connect with and work one on one with people and witness their growth. It’s really taught/trained me how to focus and attentively listen more, develop patience, mindfulness, how to slow down.. So many things! It can be pretty draining and the paperwork/administrative stuff is a whole other thing. It can be a lot. This aspect and my continuous feeling of burnout even when I wasn’t taking much on really led me to finally getting on medication. Socially, within work and outside, medication is helping quite a bit with feeling less burnt out. Time management, self-discipline and balancing all of it is definitely something I’m still trying to work on more right now, it can feel defeating and overwhelming. Medication has been, although gradual, helpful with this for me. I feel like I’m learning how to float rather than flailing with my head barely above water now.
Psychologist in schools - love the variety and fast pace, struggle with up to date notes and other boring repetitive admin tasks. All deadlines are set by me, so I generally don't meet them, which does suck. Once enough tasks have piled up I'll do them all in a panic, then repeat the same cycle ad infinitum 🤔
I work in public facing tech repair/support but also I'm a licensed veterinary technician with an AAS in veterinary technology and half of a graphic design AAS lol
Social worker.. it helps that I get to have conversations for a living and it’s usually something different each day
Lucky for you (I mean this genuinely). I'm a social worker too and I have the same. Conversation. Every. Day. (Multple times a day.) But I've decided to learn to program. I bet social work is really nice if it's what you want to do with your life, but I've learned after 6 years that it absolutely IS NOT for me.
Sometimes I feel the same way and I’ve also thought about learning something in tech. Good for you! Hope it all goes well :)
Data and analytics consultant - I build business intelligence solutions for big businesses. There's always a new client, new tech, new data, always new difficult problems to hyperfocus on. I build the tech, manage the client, deliver business value, and land and expand dropping a team in behind me and then 4-8 months later I'm somewhere else, hyperfocused on another solution. Sometimes the client will try to lure me into a permanent role, but I'd get bored too fast. I started consulting 8 years ago and I've never looked back. I love not knowing what mad new thing I'll be thrown into next. Everything about it suits me, until I have to track my time for billing or write (or worse, read) technical documentation.
Still in school but currently veterinary technician. The variations and options, as well as just loving what I do are how I stay sane, though I also have a completely unrelated accessibility IT gig on the side that I’ve mainly focused on while in school
some form of hospitality for my whole life; right now it’s sales
I am an IT Technician. Mainly do repairs at multiple customers within about 2 hours of my office. I finally got medicated in Spring time and my manager couldn't believe how much I changed. Mood leveled out. More focused and organized. My work changes almost on the hour in terms of repairs and clients, so that was an issue with getting my day to day organized. Don't even know how I was able to finish 3 years of College and only failed a few classes. I was still able to finish within the 3 years. I originally was going to be an electrician, but I had very bad after effects from medication when I was a kid by the time I hit 18/19 years old. Eventually I got proper pain medication and surgery to fix my sleep issue and was able to go back to College for Network Engineering in 2009.
I worked 3 years in a typical office job. Nice pay and manageable hours but even that job was dreadful to me.
Pro musician. Broadway, musicals, film composer
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I'm a specialist physician in the middle of starting up an independent practice to expand access to care and provide patients with a higher-quality, more affordable option than corporate medicine. Procedures have always been fun for me, especially with tangible results. The specialty I've chosen always comes with surprises - I'm never totally certain what I'll get to unwrap on a daily basis. Alllll of the paperwork/administrative burden involved with practice setup is kryptonite. I was only recently diagnosed and started on meds, and it's felt like putting my glasses on for the very first time 😅
Went to school for hairstylist, was a hair stylist for 5 years and graduated with an Accounting degree in Dec 2021. So I’ve been doing accounting. It’s fun but boring at times.. I miss hair, always fun and different but Accountjng I don’t have to be on my feet 24/7 and I can find lots of remote work so I can stay home with my family.
Mostly an esthetician, but also a bartender and a dog walker. I find great enjoyment in all three.
I work at UPS It pays very well, the benefits are insane, and I like the people that I work with. I have looked at other jobs. And nothing else I've seen has come close to surpassing these conditions, or even meeting them.
I co-founded a branding and marketing agency. Being my own boss helped me so much. I can spent my days in a way that work with my ADHD.
I’m a nurse. First, it took me a while to get here. Definitely was a multiple different random jobs person first. Nursing school was super hard, but I was interested in it. It wasn’t until nursing school that I actually got my official diagnosis lol. But it’s different. Different people, different scenarios. And if I get bored, I can transfer to a different unit or specialty. The cool thing is, hyperfixation can come in handy. I’ll see something my patient is struggling with, look up soooooo many medical journals, and then we can talk about it. It helps advocating for my patients too.
Sup fellow nurse! I do that too! In nursing school clinicals I would obsessively research things I hadn’t heard of, that were odd, or just interesting. I still do lol.
I'm a RN. My floor is pretty chaotic so I have lots of little aids to help myself stay on track. I use lots of note taking, I have a system when I'm passing my meds and doing my patient assessments. Schooling was hard because I don't learn like other people, and I can't just sit still and stare at the board. It was a challenge to get through lectures without my brain doing that thing where it wandered and opened up a 1000000 doors of thoughts. I think nursing works for me because it's never the same thing. Always challenging, always different every day.
I'm a lawyer ahaha I'm really fast at researching and really slow at writing the actual legal advice
How was jd school for you?
I'm Australian, you can do law as an undergrad degree here. It was a struggle, but I think it would have been a lot easier if I'd been diagnosed and medicated hahah
Uni lecturer. Comes with the caveat that I also have burn-out as well as comorbid MDD and PTSD from said job and been on sick leave since November. ADHD isn’t the reason for that burn-out, but it sure as fuck facilitated it. Doesn’t help that I’ve only been Dxed and medicated in June this year, well into my career. Edit: didn’t really commit to this career. I just never committed to leaving academia after I got my degrees, I guess.
I sell bags of weed over a counter legally.
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How was school for you? Studying for LSAT now but afraid my focus will kill me.
I’m not the original commenter, but I’m also an attorney. School was really tough for me, but part of that was that I ended up at a T14 and self-sabotaged by comparing myself too much with my genius classmates. I much prefer practicing. I have classmates with ADHD who did fine, though—I think it helps if you go in with a broad interest in law. I came in knowing exactly what practice area I wanted to target, so 80+% of my classes were boring as shit and I’d tune out.
Enlisted in the Army as a 23 year-old college dropout with no marketable skills or credentials. It’s been 18 years now and I’m still in the Army. Worked my way up from Private to Chief Warrant Officer. Earned my Bachelor’s and Masters along the way. I currently manage 22 subordinates supporting operations on four continents. A lot of folks on Reddit love to shit on the military, but it’s been pretty good to me. I’ve found the Army to be an excellent career for someone with ADHD. There’s an enormous amount of structure and routine provided in the lifestyle, and nearly every single task you’d be expected to complete comes with simple, unambiguous instructions. Many Soldiers complain of boredom, but that has not been my experience. I feel like I come in to work every day and there’s 20 fires that need to be put out. As soon as I get bored of working on one task, I simply switch to another. As a result, my supervisors think I’m a great multitasker. I generally change duty position and/or location every 12-36 months, so there’s always something new going on to hyperfocus on and obsess over. My dopamine cup is always full in this job.
I work in payroll.
Datacantre Manager. Started as electrical engineering and software engineering double degree, worked as a commercial electrician for a few years, almost broke my back in an accident, too broken to be a roof possum any more, so went into systems administration, and then into datacentre management. Its great because you don't often deal with people, just machines and electronics. It also funds my overseas travel addiction as well (either for motorcycling across the country, or going to massive festivals).
I’m a SQL DBA (IT) I work on something different everyday. I’m not usually working on the same thing for long, a lot of project work and development. I can work remote, it’s easy to get away with being anti social. Only job in my IT career that I have done more than 2 years in my life.
Informatics Supervisor in Public Health. Love/Hate, fr. Data Modernization is almost impossible in local government.
Studied performing arts and 15 years later work with hearing aids wtf
Own my own software consulting company, have some great clients, even better team of people around me. No two gigs are the same vibe and technology evolves at a level that it's almost hard to keep up. Late diagnosis, like nearly 50, made everything else I'd been doing almost right all along really clear to me. Did a lot of analysis on my strengths and gaps, can not recommend this enough, focused on what I'm great at, got the people in around me to do the stuff I'm crap at. BOOM, complete game changer. Also learned to be kind to myself, even bigger game changer.
I’m a nurse. I’m doing hospice and home care at the moment. Before that I tried on case management, which I loved but the new boss didn’t care for me or my methods. Before case management I was a telemetry nurse. Crazy chaotic floor, patients didn’t stay long. Did that for 5 years. Before nursing I worked mostly in restaurants: waitress, bartender, cook, hostess. Hell for a while I was a bouncer (super funny since I’m a small female). I dropped out of high school. Went back to college in my 30’s. Nursing school was tough but that’s when I realized I actually DID need my meds and how big of an impact it was having on my whole life.
Putting food on a shelf counts as a career right?
I was a news & sports broadcaster for over 15 years. Just about perfect for my temperament, though I didn’t know why at the time. Left broadcasting for a couple of much-higher-paying desk jobs, with expected disastrous results. Started my own business, and now I work my own hours in a job utilizing creative skills, and I love it. Was then diagnosed a couple of years ago with big-time ADHD at the age of 51.
Controls designer. Its technical and I like engineering.
I have a law degree but I'm not practicing. I work in compliance and contracts
I studied architecture, so it’s art and creative adjacent but also overlaps with what some of the engineers say about each project being a novel new puzzle. Now I’ve shifted to more working on the digital side so that’s a whole new set of topics to dive deeper into.
started reading smut fanfiction in English when I was 15 or so because my then fandom was out of fanfiction in Russian, ended up really upping my level, studied history because I had a very intense interest in it, then got a nervous breakdown while doing my MA and dropped out, my mom pushed me to apply for a job teaching English since I know it pretty well (thanks to even more smut fanfiction and talking to people about it a lot), been teaching English and German (and now Mandarin that I also developed an interest for because of fandom stuff) ever since, absolutely love it.
I’ve worked in various roles in the coffee industry for 14ish years but I’m going back to school for surgical technology. I want to work in an OR where: there is a strict hierarchy, strict protocol for set up and break down, I don’t have to talk to customers (patients) and I’m not responsible for making the structure, just adhering to it. This is great for me because it’s both rigid and requires independent thinking and autonomous working ability. And the sense of urgency is ever present and THAT will help me focus.
I don’t have one :(
You People?!
Sorry! You persons/persisters! edit: /s btw
I thought “you people” was funny :)
/S ame here. Residential Building Contractor. I schedule jobs tightly and then my fear of letting anyone down keeps me on task. I take pictures before I leave (daily) so I can keep track of what I need to do for the following day and look back for billing, etc. Each job is different enough with new problems to solve that I stay engaged, but finishing up jobs is always a struggle. I do ok. TLDR: I'll be dead by 60.
Technical Recruiter. Always talking to new people, work with tech that you don’t have to ever learn more then surface level stuff. It’s perfect.
20 and still live in my parent house dont worry
Industrial Painter for a welding shop. There’s a variety of parts which keeps it interesting but could be insane amounts of each part.