Career women with ADHD/ADD

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Comment by Creative Mind Different-Order on January 31, 2012 at 11:48pm

What a great group! Women with ADHD can have fantastic careers and overcome challenges. Finding a career that's a good fit for my natural ADHD tendencies has really helped me. I'm now off meds and doing pretty well. I've had to make difficult choices about jobs that have not been a good fit for me, but I've come a long way in learning how to find a workplace that is supportive and positive. I started a new blog where I'm sharing some of my experiences with ADHD to help other women be inspired to find positive solutions to everything in life. Check it out! http://creativewomenadhd.blogspot.com/

Comment by Faith on October 24, 2011 at 6:34pm

Denise,

 

I'm just now seeing your post and I can so relate! I can also totally relate to the Kathy Bate's quote in the movie. And I also couldn't agree more to your statement: "This affliction is an invisible disability to the masses in the work place. Especially, in the ranks of most corporate leadership. I hesitiate to mention that most are probably afflicted with the same issues as myself, but, are paid high wages to fit square pegs into round holes. The reasons do not have to be valid, just political, so as not to bluntly break discrimination laws and put the companies in potential legal jeopoardy."

I'm very fortunate in that, due to a combination of diligence, good habits, and luck, I've been able to maintain a good paying job, but it is very stressful to me. I know I need to find a way to do more of what I love and find a way to live on that! Definitely easier said than done [in this economy, especially], but I'm aligning to others and situations that will make that an easier transition. One can only hope!

 

Hang in there, All, and best wishes....

 

Keep the faith :)

Comment by Wendy on October 24, 2011 at 11:51am

Denise-  I feel for you. I'm in the same predicament. I am always the square peg in the round hole. I haven't found a good career fit and have been fired more times than I care to recall. Now that I have been out of work (w/the exception of 9 mos) for almost three years I am frustrated and am running out of hope of finding a well paying, well suited position. Keep your chin up and believe it will get better. That's all I can do.

Comment by Denise on September 15, 2011 at 12:29pm

I feel like everyone of you are echoing the woes of my life here. I, too, am at a crossroads in my career. Borderline resignation or involuntary termination. Much of the office Politics are toxic for me. I don't feel like I fit in anywhere anymore. In the words of the Kathy Bates character in Fried Green Tomatoes, "I'm too old to be young and too young to be old". Regretfully, this affliction is an invisible disability to the masses in the work place. Especially, in the ranks of most corporate leadership. I hesitiate to mention that most are probably afflicted with the same issues as myself, but, are paid high wages to fit square pegs into round holes. The reasons do not have to be valid, just political, so as not to bluntly break discrimination laws and put the companies in potential legal jeopoardy. Apologies, I am really trying to get a handle on my cynicism. Somedays, I have less hope than others on the outlook of my ability to maintain an income. I also suffer from Graves Disease and PTSD. I suspect all 3 of my conditions are working together to help me self-sabatoge myself into unemployment yet again. I am working on an introduction of myself, but, lately I keep getting sidetracked. I've gone half-way through typing my intro, only to lose all when trying to post. I remain determined to get it complete.

 

Comment by Brenda on August 31, 2011 at 1:00am

I recently lost my job due in large part to my ADD. what are good professions for people with ADD?

Comment by tk on July 31, 2011 at 4:59pm

Hello Natasha,

Sorry to hear about your job situation.  I have been living with a diagnosis of ADHD since 2000,  but I am certain I was born this way. 

I wanted to tell you that when a door closes, another will open.  Feeling disappointed is common for me also. I hope all is well.

Comment by Natasha E. on July 30, 2011 at 9:56pm

I have been a state Social Worker for 7 yrs.  After 4 yrs of being told I can't do the job, I am forgetting details and taking one yr, off for work place stress, I was asked to leave my position on Thursday.  They were nice enough to not fire me completely but I have been sent home with no pay until a "better" position is found for me.  I am 40 and was diagnosed with ADD Innatentive type 4 yrs. ago.  I feel dissapointed in myself so uncertain about where I am heading in life.  Well I just really wanted to express how I felt with people who understand. 

Comment by Angela Davis on July 11, 2011 at 6:35pm

I have recently been demoted, (not exactly) but it was called a change in duties.  I was a supervisor and lost confidence in doing the job that I was hired to do.  I have always worked differently but I get the job done.  Lately, I can't concentrate, have no desire to work but I have to because of my debt.  I'm afraid that if I use the supervisor as a reference, that the negative review will hurt my chances getting another position.  I can no longer keep on top of my piles, I have turned into a bag lady, carrying papers back and forth from home to work, never knowing where anything is.  I have never been this bad before.  I am on meds, I hired a professional organizer, in the middle of divorce # 3 because I don't think my husband will ever get that I am not lying when I say that I forget things or that I don't remember.  I really think that I would be great as a counselor, I finished my master's degree but I didn't finish the last paperwork to get conferred (two years and counting).  I need to change careers before I find myself unemployed.

Comment by Faith on April 26, 2011 at 12:09pm

Gosh, I only wish the meds helped me like that. It helps me get through my [night] shifts, but it doesn't help me focus like I had hoped and, in fact, makes it worse for me in the sense that I'm worse off now when the meds wear off than I was when I didn't take meds at all. So, soon onto the next, I'm sure....drag!

Comment by Nomadd on April 26, 2011 at 9:58am

Hi Danielle,

I can totally relate. I was the same way before being medicated (and at first, once I started on the meds, I got worse.) I actually did have a breakdown and I was out of commission for over a year. Looking back though, I feel it was inevitable for me. It wasn't just work that led to my feeling like everything was out of control, but work was a big part of it. I always felt like such a fraud (I still do sometimes.) But I was also addicted to the stress. I got so used to the idea that I was a scatterbrain that I didn't know how else to be. 

 

I've actually managed to go back to the job that I thought I wasn't capable of doing. And I'm doing so much better at it. I'm more productive, confident and interested in what I'm doing. Sometimes I wonder if my co-workers wonder what happened to me. I'm sure I must seem so different than I did before my leave. 

 

Anyway, I hope you can find you own ways to manage your situation - without having a breakdown and having to stop working like I did. It's been 2 years since I came back and I'm still playing catch up.

~ Jess 

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