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[quote=Anonymous]I suspect I have inattentive ADD but have never been diagnosed. I rely on novelty to get work done. I advanced quickly early in my career because I got to jump from project to project as the junior employee in training mode. Once I hit mid-level (GS-13), I stalled. I was expected to stay on and even lead projects for their entire duration, and I struggled mightily with the attention span and interest to do that. Memos that I should have been able to pound out in an hour took two or three days to write. Meanwhile, I'd get a million other unimportant tasks completed. It was super frustrating to see people with a fraction of the experience and knowledge get promoted over me.

Then I learned that people in my org get accommodation plans. Basically, they have official recognition of their diagnosis (anxiety, ADHD, dyslexia, etc) and have accommodations built around that. For example, if the requirement for your job is to give x number of presentations to senior folks, but you're officially on record for having anxiety and being incapable of giving presentations, then that's no longer a requirement for your performance evaluation. Meanwhile, the employees without that accommodation will be required to give x presentations and be judged harshly if they suck at it.

So, long way of saying, the best job for ADHD is a) anything that provides sufficient novelty for you to hyperfocus when it's new and intriguing, and then be able to move on quickly; or b) any type of work (government is good for this) that will accommodate you not actually doing your job.[/quote]

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