You may have more success treating the ADHD than finding a unicorn job that doesn't need attention to detail.

Having ADHD doesn't mean you don't or can't pay attention to detail with respect to things that interest you. I'm a criminal defense attorney, and I can pay meticulous attention to detail because I love my work. If I were reviewing FOIA docs for a living, it would be a different story.

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Anonymous wrote:Retail or something equally mind numbing and repetitive like Amazon procurement (just shuffle around boxes, tape up box flaps, let the scanners and computers do the rest).

Mind-numbing, repetitive job are the absolute worst kind for people with ADHD.

+1000

What do you love? A cause or an activity or whatever? It has to be worth it to you to do the mind numbing/ boring/ tedious things in order to get to do that work. You have to want it bad enough to come up with and reliably execute the coping strategies.

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Anonymous wrote:Retail or something equally mind numbing and repetitive like Amazon procurement (just shuffle around boxes, tape up box flaps, let the scanners and computers do the rest).

Mind-numbing, repetitive job are the absolute worst kind for people with ADHD.

I was going to say! Bartender would be better, if you're looking at that level of job. Quick projects, short bursts of social interaction.

It all comes back to IF the person can manage their symptoms. A bartender with ADHD would not survive a busy restaurant on a Saturday night when there are bar customers who need food and servers who need drinks made and someone needs a refill and someone else needs to be tabbed out and another server needs change from the register.

I mean to add they won't survive unless they have a system for handling these things that works for them.

I disagree. Do you have ADHD, PP? Because you don't seem to really get how the ADHD brain works.

Anonymous wrote:Retail or something equally mind numbing and repetitive like Amazon procurement (just shuffle around boxes, tape up box flaps, let the scanners and computers do the rest).

Sorry, but this is an ignorant response.

Can you see a career coach? I am also a corporate exec and there are a fair amount of us at least where I work with ADHD but you've got to really knuckle down in the early days to get to the part where you're valuable for your brain and insights and not smaller stuff. Coming into the workforce late is going to require some more creativity.

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Anonymous wrote:Retail or something equally mind numbing and repetitive like Amazon procurement (just shuffle around boxes, tape up box flaps, let the scanners and computers do the rest).

Mind-numbing, repetitive job are the absolute worst kind for people with ADHD.

I was going to say! Bartender would be better, if you're looking at that level of job. Quick projects, short bursts of social interaction.

It all comes back to IF the person can manage their symptoms. A bartender with ADHD would not survive a busy restaurant on a Saturday night when there are bar customers who need food and servers who need drinks made and someone needs a refill and someone else needs to be tabbed out and another server needs change from the register.

I mean to add they won't survive unless they have a system for handling these things that works for them.

Sure. That's true. I know when I've had counter/server jobs (last one was 20-something years ago), the ones I've liked the best have been at moderately busy - but not slammed or empty - places. I don't know if that's a function of ADHD or just personal preference.

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Anonymous wrote:Retail or something equally mind numbing and repetitive like Amazon procurement (just shuffle around boxes, tape up box flaps, let the scanners and computers do the rest).

Mind-numbing, repetitive job are the absolute worst kind for people with ADHD.

I was going to say! Bartender would be better, if you're looking at that level of job. Quick projects, short bursts of social interaction.

It all comes back to IF the person can manage their symptoms. A bartender with ADHD would not survive a busy restaurant on a Saturday night when there are bar customers who need food and servers who need drinks made and someone needs a refill and someone else needs to be tabbed out and another server needs change from the register.

I mean to add they won't survive unless they have a system for handling these things that works for them.

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Anonymous wrote:Retail or something equally mind numbing and repetitive like Amazon procurement (just shuffle around boxes, tape up box flaps, let the scanners and computers do the rest).

Mind-numbing, repetitive job are the absolute worst kind for people with ADHD.

I was going to say! Bartender would be better, if you're looking at that level of job. Quick projects, short bursts of social interaction.

It all comes back to IF the person can manage their symptoms. A bartender with ADHD would not survive a busy restaurant on a Saturday night when there are bar customers who need food and servers who need drinks made and someone needs a refill and someone else needs to be tabbed out and another server needs change from the register.

Rather than just one job, could you do a bunch of jobs for a short amount of time? A couple of weeks as a bartender, then quit (or get fired) and work as a chef on a yacht for a few days, etc?

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Anonymous wrote:Retail or something equally mind numbing and repetitive like Amazon procurement (just shuffle around boxes, tape up box flaps, let the scanners and computers do the rest).

Mind-numbing, repetitive job are the absolute worst kind for people with ADHD.

I was going to say! Bartender would be better, if you're looking at that level of job. Quick projects, short bursts of social interaction.

Anonymous wrote:DH is a journalist. Hyperfocus, but always new stuff, deadlines make him focus too. No managing others, no paperwork. He has great attention to detail in narrative, just not regular life ....

Other ideas- marketing, medical sales , customer service, florist, ...what's your education/ focus?

I used to be a journalist - and it was def a good fit in many ways. You just have to be very diligent about checking all your facts - names, dates, everything - to be sure you haven't gotten any of the details wrong. But yeah, the overall thing of having short intense projects, that you can then put down and move on to the next thing- that was very good.

I'm in comms now. It's not as good a fit but it's not that bad.

Anonymous wrote:Retail or something equally mind numbing and repetitive like Amazon procurement (just shuffle around boxes, tape up box flaps, let the scanners and computers do the rest).

Mind-numbing, repetitive job are the absolute worst kind for people with ADHD.

Anonymous wrote:I have ADHD and so do many of my closest friends. I am a corporate VP, my fellows are in a corporate director, a program manager in the federal government, a CFO, an academic coordinator, and a nurse anesthetist. There’s no shortage of talent and ambition, it’s simply learning how to manage your condition.

This x 1000.

Retail or something equally mind numbing and repetitive like Amazon procurement (just shuffle around boxes, tape up box flaps, let the scanners and computers do the rest).