Unlocking Your Ultimate Career Path | 7 Roles Perfect For ADHD
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In this video, we're going to be discussing the seven most common careers that are perfect for people with ADHD. From creative to corporate, there's a role for everyone with ADHD.
If you're thinking about what kind of career is best for you, be sure to watch this video! We'll talk about the benefits of having ADHD, as well as the seven common careers that are perfect for people with ADHD. From there, it'll be up to you to decide which career is the right one for you!
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Music--usually classical or art music--is the biggest thing that drives me. I live for it, I can hyperfocus on it for hours on end, I am skilled, but I can't seem to take that next step into making it my career. If I have to spend the next 20-25 years of my life in tech, I...well, let's just say I'm not sure I'll make it that long. I don't know what to do. I don't know where to begin, and I'm lost.
Thanks for the comment!
Yeah, this is where the coaching side of ADHD comes in, helping to get you from point a to point b. The way I see it: if we spend our lives doing something we don't want to, then what will we feel in 25 years when we look back and find ourselves thinking "what if I'd spent this time pursuing the thing I wanted to do?".
For example, I wanted to create an ADHD channel 3 years ago, but held off. If I'd started back then, I would've had 156 videos created by now! What you do *now* will start having an impact in 6-12 months.
I'be been job hopping for the past 35 years. Especially the last 9 since quitting my corporate job and retraining to be an actor. For me, the hardest thing has been finding a survival job that I actually enjoy. I'm now suffering depression due to being in the wrong environment and no longer having the mental capacity to be creative and work on my side project of being (ironically) a careers coach. I enjoy finding creative ways of helping people, and Ilove public speaking. Unfortunately, both are very hard to get work in. I'm going to keep trying tho.
I spent a long time job hopping, I was working in restaurants for a long time but always trying to work in video. Once I did end up working in video for other people, I realized that it was just as unfulfilling as restaurant work. It was only once I sat down and asked myself what I wanted, what I needed and what was the ultimate long term goal that things changed for me.
Running my business is one of the most challenging experiences of my life, it's hard work, but because it's within my core, it stops me from giving myself the excuse to quit.
If you've found the thing within yourself that aligns with you, then go for it! As I tell my members: do it scared. Don't wait for it to feel right, or feel good, do it because it's within you.
The more you get used to that discomfort and doing the thing anyway, the more you program your brain to keep taking action, the quieter that fear gets. :)
Keep going, keep your eye on the prize and keep moving forward even when shit feels like it sucks
ADHD made me waste years. I could have literally gotten a PhD with the years that not being focused, having time blindness, having pressure from mentally abusive and narcissistic parents, and then being rejected due to lack of employment history and the unstructured path of my early career that made me only have temporary and seasonal jobs. I fell behind in life and the sense of falling behind causes me more pain and intrusive thoughts. I changed my career from teaching, though I could not land a full time teacher but then transitioned to IT. My ADHD causes me always waste a year from studying from my certification exams and then I can only study two weeks before the test for the past three years. Each year I only study in the last minute. I do not know how I fast forwarded three years.
This video is pretty spot on. While I wasn't diagnosed until my late 20's, the signs were pretty obvious. Job hopped while finishing college, trying to figure out what I really wanted to do, which resulted in me eventually stumbling into one that involved several of my passions working on the backend in the automotive industry. I was badly taken advantage of financially though which led to bouncing until a job recruiter called me out of the blue about a tech company looking for someone with my knowledge that they could help train to become a data scientist. The pay was ok, but I'd finally have health insurance and could finally afford to see doctors to get the help and medications I needed along with a work environment that wasn't filled with toxicity. I still have my creative gigs on the side, as a hobby mostly, because they will always be part of me, but its nice to finally find an industry that fits my lifestyle better than those I struggled in along the way.
I job hopped a lot too! That was before my diagnosis.
And that's great, sounds like you found your flow working in data science and doing the creative stuff on the side. Nothing wrong with doing the creative stuff as a hobby, often that keeps the enjoyment of it fresh too!
Thanks so much for stopping by! Let me know if there's anything you want to see me cover in the future :)
I tried learning data science but it was so extremely boring for me with the excel stuff. I’m happy to hear you finally found something that stuck for you man. You actually commented on my comment about driving job experience. This has given me a lot of hope
So do you take the meds then ?
I started volunteering with my local group of conservation volunteers as a first step.
That's amazing! I love that
I was wondering what was wrong with me, dopamine addictions, coffee, porn, fast food, video games, films, buying electronics/ films. Poor boundaries, people pleasing, emotional, overwhelm. I have dyslexia and judging by the symptoms I am 99% sure I have ADHD as well.
It took me a while researching back and forth online until I pulled the trigger and went for an official diagnosis.
It's awesome that you're researching it, the more you know the way your brain works, the more you can work with it
Hi,
I’m currently struggling with this. I have been Job hopping for around 4 years now since coming to the age of work. It’s having such a detrimental and financial negative impact on my life.
I was only diagnosed with ADHD recently so I never knew I struggled with this condition and now it makes a lot of sense
I’m going about trying different passion projects for IT and then pursuing whichever held my interest
But for now I’ve got an interview for a delivery job in a few days
Thank you for making this content. It makes me feel so much better now that I know I just didn’t understand myself ❤
Ah, thanks so much for the comment!
And yeah, sometimes it takes some job hopping to realize what does / doesn't align with you. Over time it will become clearer and clearer, for sure. Keep learning about yourself and how your mind works and things become way easier.
Thanks for stopping by!
I did this too in my teens and 20's, I tried working delivery jobs and driving limos, but the toughest part was the time management which ultimately lead me to leave the industry. I'd recommend learning a computer language like python and going for a computer sciences degree, like cybersecurity or data science. There's always a challenge, and many new or unique ones so just when things get boring something new happens rekindling your interest. And don't be too hard on yourself or let the financial part get you down, we all struggle with it, as do the NT folks, just try to be careful not to let it get out of hand, especially with credit cards since they are dangerous for our dopamine fixes and during depressive episodes when we turn to retail therapy.
@@Lex1uth3r Hey man I just wanna say thank you so so much for leaving this comment. I’ve been told programming suits ADHD really well. No it really does mean a lot for you to share your experience. I didn’t get the driving job however yes I completely feel you about time management. We suck so bad with that from what I’ve learnt about having ADHD.
Fortunately I don’t have a shopping problem, and I didn’t allow myself to get a credit card because from experience I can’t manage one to save myself lol. I max it out and then cry 😂
How about marketing?
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Great video though it's aimed at younger people. Any advice for us older D'ers in our 50's..?
Thanks for the kind words! I didn't make the video specifically for younger ppl to be honest, I feel like the principles were still relevant? Or maybe I'm missing something
@BeUltranormal Righto, though changing career in your 50s is much harder to do then in your 20s and you imvariably need some kind of financial safety net to see you through which most d'ers typically don't have.
I can definitely understand that, I mean ultimately there may be bigger lifestyle sacrifices for a later change in career for sure. The one thing I recommend to members is having a 'Season of No', if you want to have a big lifestyle change (especially as an ADHDer) then figure out what is the absolute minimum you need to live (minimum includes emergency buffer), figure out the goal you want, and then say 'no' (temporarily) to everything that doesn't feed towards that goal. Then focus for 6-12 months on putting in 100% towards making that goal happen.
For an ADHDer to make big changes over a longer period of time is a risk, because if we aren't seeing big results then we can get bored/disinterested. So if we use our hyperfocus to our advantage then we can get there quicker than most, get our hooks in and then start to reintroduce the balance to our lives.
This is how I've built my business, I've said 'no' to everything. I've missed out on trips with my family, I've turned down better paying work, I've failed more times than I ever have in my life in order to grow and build a better future for myself and my loved ones. Change will always be the hardest at the start, always. It's always worthwhile tho! I made a video on this: czcams.com/video/sFmo-8_Yxsk/video.htmlsi=Mhv6IPH3WlzAbOZI
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1. I have no passions or interests.
2. I don't have the energy or focus for high energy jobs.
3. I hate having structures imposed upon me.
4. Creative jobs are unreliable or hard to obtain.
5. Entrepreneur isn't a real career.
6. I don't have the social skills for sales.
7. I am too old to learn and break into the tech industry.
Y'know I've thought most of these things at one point in the past, those feelings are totally valid. I'd love to go through each of your concerns one by one with some thoughts:
1. If you don't feel like you have any passion or interests, why not keep looking until you find something that clicks? What have you got to lose vs what do you have to gain?
2. If energy and focus is a challenge, then what can you do to grow one or both of those?
3. I had that same interpretation too, structure felt like the absolute worst because it felt like a prison to my creativity. However, once I started to shift my interpretation, I learned to appreciate that structure *creates* freedom by giving me more dedicated time for the stuff I want to do
4. This can be true, so it definitely makes it harder to find the right one. However, if you *want* a creative job but don't keep pursuing it because they're unreliable/hard to find, then you're simply choosing a different kind of difficult: the difficulty of not doing the thing that drives you.
5. If creating a business is not a real career, then I'm not sure what is!
6. Perfect! Skills are super learnable, and there's plenty of free skill training for this kinda thing out there!
7. I'm not sure what your age is, but I've known multiple people who have learned coding skills post-retirement and are working in tech.
Overall, I'd simply say that if you're happy where you are in your career, then great! If you're not, and you want something different, then what can you do differently in order to get different results?
Sounds like you don't really know yourself. Too many of us run around on autopilot. My suggestion is to ask yourself why you don't have interests or passions and question your answers. Then list everyone you know who doesn't have an interest or passion just like you.
You won't have energy until u allow yourself emotions and desires again. Do you buck self-imposed structures as well? Get creative about it lol every job worth having is unreliable and hard to obtain, tho. Why so judgmental about entrepreneurs? High energy/High structures aren't your real jobs either? Social skills aren't the biggest factor in sales. Psychological manipulation is 😂 your too old to learn? Hmmm.... re read your post but this time it was written by a blue haired Gen z individual who uses they/ them and shares a matching nose ring with their emotional support plushie. I'd wager you'd sum it up as "young people just don't want to work now days. "
Sounds like me. Autistic as well as having ADHD is really debilitating....