Slightly ADD - Careers that are stimulating - Help!

[nonameo]

Just surrender those 40 hours every week and remember that pretty much everyone has to work.

 

[FallenHero]

Originally posted by: MartyMcFly3

Originally posted by: soccerballtux

Originally posted by: hiromizu
ADD = just a name/excuse for someone who lacks discipline and self control. Back in the days we called them idiots.

Lol...right. When I'm reading a book, and someone starts talking at/to me, and for some whatever reason I cannot keep the sentence going in my head from the book and comprehend it, but instead lose my place and am unable to pay attention to the book anymore but to the person talking, that is somehow a lack of discipline and self control? If I were an idiot I wouldn't have gone to one of the top engineering universities in the world. Owned.

Dude, you cant claim you owned someone yourself. Someone quotes what you type and responds with "owned". Thats how it works. Thats how you own someone. The fact that you said owned in your post makes whatever you typed, even if its the best insult/comeback known in the history of mankind, null and void. You lose. Good day, sir!

OWNED!

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: SludgeFactory
oh damn, I never knew I had ADD. I can't read while listening to somebody talking either. I thought it was natural for human beings to get bored and lose concentration when doing mundane technical reading. It's not?!? I never could listen to music while I was studying at a top 10 university without losing some focus. I didn't even have a supply of adderall for cramming

For a stimulating career, try summer work in a warehouse, digging ditches, or slinging boxes at a UPS distribution center.

please....
people with ADD tend to excel in one area and have a vested interest in the material and topics that are in said category. Now, school work can get mundane anyhow... so that doesn't help.
but like me... in school and at home I excel with computers and have a huge interest in them. However, I quickly learned that it's also not the kind of career I want to get into... it would bore me. So I've relegated computers to a hobby, same with photography - something I really like but outside of potential freelance sales of works, it won't be a career.

so... the Army sounds good for me. I've always had an interest in the various areas of the military and training stimulates my mind and holds my focus, and obviously in the field there are going to be a lot of different factors that help keep one focused on the overall task, because well... it's kind of important to a future life... not holding focus during training can get you or others killed... and obviously battle will keep your mind on the task at hand, and not on the squirrel climbing a tree.

 

[superjohn]

I am the type of person that gets bored very easily, and find it pretty much impossible to focus on things I have no interest in. I'm going to have to work that out, I know. The thing is, that with things I am interested in I can cocentrate for ages. It's just finding something that engages that part of me so I can do well. And unless you are a masochist, you have to enjoy what you do for 40 or more hours a week. I don't want to be miserable.