ADHD memes

I think I’d like something that doesn’t make me wanna kill kyself.

It's software development. You get your stupid little Jira tickets like little quests and you get to solve them however you see fit. And then they get put on the deployment belt and run through all the checking steps in a satisfyingly rigid way. And then you're done with them and you don't have to think about them ever again. It's the perfect cycle.

Software testing checks all those boxes

Cybersecurity was great for that before the AI-pocalypse.

I run a small window cleaning company, no high rise.

It hits the spot. Jobs are on rotation, consistent, predictable. Work is adaptable, requires active problem solving, easy to notice what's finished and what needs detailing.

I did customer service for 14 years, and I thought I hated working. Turns out I just hate stupid people and wasted effort.

I'll work hard, if it makes sense.

Teaching meets all of these criteria. The one it doesn't meet is "make enough money to survive"

I've had a few solid options for my audhd ass.

• video game QA testing
• union organizing
• dry lab genetic research

I seem to subconsciously know what to look for, because I've only had 1 job where I hated the work. Grocery retail wasn't bad, but pales in comparison to these. Granted union organizing has a lot of bad surprises, but the ideological bent more than compensates

Try being a handyman, nearly perfect for getting new problems to solve, flexible, the project is usually done the same day if that's the scope of work you want, or take some bigger things if you want a project for a month.

Honestly pretty rewarding fixing things up, I'll never not get dopamine when I manage to get something ticking, or make a wall look nice, or whatever it is I'm trying to mend.

I was a custom picture framer, that fit the bill if anyone's looking for recs

Man, I had a sweet spot job before i moved. I was effectively a gofer, just doing whatever the management wanted me to do. They understood the limits of my abilities and drip fed me with responsibilities and raises. I worked at my own pace and usually alone. Some times i was at my desk for hours doing paper work or researching. Other times i was running around all over the place to pick up supplies, or rescue coworkers with supply drops, or help with a broken vehicle, or just help ith the work on site.

It seemed like there was always something new to tackle, but everything felt doable. And also i got to listen to podcasts/music pretty much whenever i wanted.

Mechanic,

Every day is a new puzzle that at the end of the day fits into the box exactly as it should.

No matter how out there and strange the problem always makes sense at the end. It's so rewarding

Not to mention people are optional. Some of the best mechanics i know don't talk to customers they have a receptionist who deals with that

Hence programming being popular with AuDhd folks

And one which doesn't involve using a phone

I think I have this kind of job, and yet I want everything to just stop. Everything. And I am not autistic nor have ADHD. And I can't even ask anyone for help, because I am not supposed to. I did try asking for help. I was either ignored or was told that I shouldn't ask for help.

Try my life, autism + schizophrenia. That means I'm obsessed with my own schizophrenic hallucinations. Yay!

This is why I'm stuck as a line cook 🙃

This is universal human experience, right? Right??!

Mail delivery honestly does it for me

Engineer at a tech startup. Extremely fast-paced and nearly everything is resolved in a day. My train commute enforces strict boundaries on my working hours. It's like an episodic procedural TV show, except instead of finding a murderer I'm finding out why these widgets are wrong today.

I thought I had cracked it. I'm an engineer (not software). The job requires all of this, but the timescales are all wrong, so you'll be designing something for six weeks, then drafting documents for the next eight. So I spend the first week in joyous flow and then the next 5 in hell. There is no job that's right for me. I'm really useful I swear, I promise.

This is how I ended up sticking with stone masonry for like almost 20 years now.

I think I'm finding these communities just aren't for me because 99% of the memes describe absolutely utterly normal wants & needs. Every single NT person on earth would want those things.

I actually kinda found it. If not for upper management it would be perfect. I'm a metrology tech, I do precision measurement all day, whether that's gathering the data myself by using a laser tracker and physically measuring it or sitting behind my keyboard for 6 hours straight, repeating the same analysis functions again and again in spatial analyzer to see whether our part is in tolerance, then creating a customer deliverable report highlighting the deviations from nominal. Or maybe a part wasn't machined to the correct surface profile, guess I'll set up and sand the part while tracking how many .001in increments I've removed. Do I have a boss? Absolutely, gives me my list of things that need doing for the night. The leaves me to fuck off and formulate an attack plan and execute. Occasional break ins between parts to assist the mills with accuracy testing, or levelling a pallet station to +/- .005 flatness or training mill technicians on metrology collections.

The variety is as endless as the parts we manufacture. Aerospace is pretty cool. Too bad I have help process these parts for fuckheads like beeeezo and leon. Other cool things too, science mission stuff, which kinda help make it tolerable. Kinda.

Biomed might be a bit more ADHD for some, but it hits all the tropes.

I don't know what I'm going to repair day to day, I'll get all sorts of weird stuff. And sometimes get interrupted which irritates me when I'm in the middle of a big project.

But my time clock is regular daily. I go in, I triage what I can repair vs send out, what is needed immediately vs being put on the "When I get slow period" and figure out how to put in PMs. And what that really looks like is if there's no emergency repairs, I ask my self what am I feeling that day. Do I want boring and repetitive? Lets go PM some machines. Do I want a bit of thinking, lets repair something I've repaired dozens to hundreds of, the troubleshooting is the thinking time. Do I want something novel, time to dig up some manuals and find something I've never worked on before.

I made cable filler (the stuff in the lines that goes under the ocean) for an Employee Owned Company.

It was the BEST job I ever had. Hit all the markers, AND we were respected as emoloyees being EO.

Left during the pandemic. The company.. tbh, tanked. My payout (not even close to what I could have walked with if I stayed til retirement) would have been 12k (after taxes/fees) the day I left. I had to wait 5 years to get my stock payout due to resigning. Walked with $2k. So.. I left right when the culture shifted, and though pissed at losing 10k, my leaving feels validated.

But I know I wont ever find work like that again. Yes im sad about it.

This post just made me deeply appreciate my job.

I would take anything that I am able to do that doesn't make me want to die

For my son it was working in the library. Quiet organizing, different every day.

My job. Chef at a lunch buffet. Different menu every day, but some things are the same every day. Definate rules so you don't kill people, but creative freedom within that.

Doors. Doors are always the same but they're frequently installed in new and interesting places

I used to work as a weather forecaster.

I miss it every day. It was the perfect blend T^T

Best reality can do is a boring predictable job where the only real variety is when you get bollocked and what for.

Boats! Every day is different, every job is different. But there are basic guidelines and standards to work to. The fun is seeing how terribly far away from those standards the average boatowner gets… Also it’s every trade in one trade. Electrician, yup. Carpentry, also that. Mechanic? Systems? Welding? Also yes. Some days you do mechanics in the morning and carpentry in the afternoon, on the same job.