Best jobs for ADHD

[Anonymous]

DD has pretty severe ADHD -- even with medication- so bad at executive functioning, organizing, sustained attention to low interest activities, etc. Also has a learnimg disability with writing. Despite this, she is smart, good at math, loves kids, attractive (I mention because it can be helpfuk for some jobs), has an outgoing personality. She has a year before college and she is starting to think about future career paths (i.e. teaching, nursing). Does anyone with ADHD have a career path that has been especially good for them or their family members?

[Anonymous]

I went through this with my son. When we started with serious discussions, he told me the things about a job that he could t do and that would make him miserable. It was virtually every single desk job. I thought he’d be great as a criminal investigator but the paperwork was too daunting.

To make a long story short, we looked at the list of all possible career tracks at his community college and after discussing every single one, the list narrowed to nursing, radiologist, auto tech, HVAC, electrician and plumber. PT might have worked but the amount of education was a deterrent.

Anyway it took a lot of work to pick a major. I had to find job descriptions for the different options in each major (not hard but time consuming)min order for us to have meaningful conversations.

[Anonymous]

Elementary school teacher
Small business owner
. . .Could she do a Meyers-Briggs test, OP?

[Anonymous]

Sales

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD has pretty severe ADHD -- even with medication- so bad at executive functioning, organizing, sustained attention to low interest activities, etc. Also has a learnimg disability with writing. Despite this, she is smart, good at math, loves kids, attractive (I mention because it can be helpfuk for some jobs), has an outgoing personality. She has a year before college and she is starting to think about future career paths (i.e. teaching, nursing). Does anyone with ADHD have a career path that has been especially good for them or their family members?

Maybe she can be a math tutor? Work at a place like Mathnasium or as an online tutor?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sales

100%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went through this with my son. When we started with serious discussions, he told me the things about a job that he could t do and that would make him miserable. It was virtually every single desk job. I thought he’d be great as a criminal investigator but the paperwork was too daunting.

To make a long story short, we looked at the list of all possible career tracks at his community college and after discussing every single one, the list narrowed to nursing, radiologist, auto tech, HVAC, electrician and plumber. PT might have worked but the amount of education was a deterrent.

Anyway it took a lot of work to pick a major. I had to find job descriptions for the different options in each major (not hard but time consuming)min order for us to have meaningful conversations.

Where is he now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went through this with my son. When we started with serious discussions, he told me the things about a job that he could t do and that would make him miserable. It was virtually every single desk job. I thought he’d be great as a criminal investigator but the paperwork was too daunting.

To make a long story short, we looked at the list of all possible career tracks at his community college and after discussing every single one, the list narrowed to nursing, radiologist, auto tech, HVAC, electrician and plumber. PT might have worked but the amount of education was a deterrent.

Anyway it took a lot of work to pick a major. I had to find job descriptions for the different options in each major (not hard but time consuming)min order for us to have meaningful conversations.

Where is he now?

Montgomery College. It’s good. He’s not ready for living away and fulfilling the obligations of college. He may be looking at something outdoors for the longer term like national parks. Who knows but he’s got a direction.

[Anonymous]

Look into things where she can 1) move around, literally, and 2) work on different things throughout the day. Changing things up is key for me. Having to focus on one thing all day is torture.

[Anonymous]

With ADHD, being The Boss is the best thing. Let other people remember what day the trash goes out and suffer the consequences if it is not done.
Those ADHD evaluations are modulated for gender. Your DD is going to be light years better at organizing than if she were a different gender. Good at math? Great with people?
Project manager at a tech company. Major in STEM.

[Anonymous]

She should major in something that interests her. She needs the drive to succeed. A lot will change 5 years from now.

[Anonymous]

Trade school.

[Anonymous]

Police officer, I work in LE and more than half the officers I work with have it.

My 13yo sounds a lot like your DD. She wants to do something sporty, also likes kids. She’s thinking maybe sports trainer or PE teacher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:With ADHD, being The Boss is the best thing. Let other people remember what day the trash goes out and suffer the consequences if it is not done.
Those ADHD evaluations are modulated for gender. Your DD is going to be light years better at organizing than if she were a different gender. Good at math? Great with people?
Project manager at a tech company. Major in STEM.

Are you kidding? The project managers I know are some of the most detail oriented, timely and reliable people I know. I have mild ADHD and could tell you this type of job would be absolute torture.

[Anonymous]

We have two boys of college age with ADHD. One is a car mechanic and also takes classes at Montgomery College. The other is going to start college in the fall (state school, after a gap year) and might stop after getting an associates degree; he wants to be a firefighter.

School was never their thing.