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- lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/17063654
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I’m excellent at moving from one task to another
(they just may not be the ones you want me working on)
hey boss I did that thing you didn’t know I decided I was excited about. Don’t worry I stayed up sleepless working on it for an entire week which is why I’ve been unable to focus during meetings. It also prevented me from looking at the items you had assigned me two weeks ago
Too real. Turn back.
I anticipatie accidents and hiccups before they happen
Except for the ones that actually happen.
I sadly have to tell my employer that i have “severly disabled” status. Working rights.
Got special protection when fired, 5 days more vacation and other things i probably dont know
ADHD literally makes you bad at task switching.
Heavily depends on what the tasks are
3 different hyperfixations at once? let’s fucking go
a game i don’t even really want to play more of today vs the dishes? best believe i’m adding another 12h to the steam counter
Luckily I have the likes doing the dishes OCD-tangent ADHD. 😎
my mild ocd only perks up when i’m stressed and then i wash my hands 5 times in a row because i need to grab my towel just right for my brain to stfu and let me get on with my life 😔
I love doing them manually but I absolutely hate emptying or filling a dishwasher
well yes because we struggle to consciously task-switch.
Well, no one said anything about completing or even progressing the tasks. Just switching between them
Is it filler or is it just the truth?
I truly see it as my biggest strength that my ADHD can make me do a weeks worth of tasks in a single day when needed, or the fact that i can hear the 3D printer crashing from acros the room, or catch the tiniest imperceptible changes to the sound and rhythm of a machine I’m working on because my focus is on everything all at once. It can take my colleagues days to figure something out that I catch immediately.
Every time someone asks in an interview what one of my weaknesses is, i mention how I often will focus on technical task far too in depth, basically try to flip my hyper focus into a strength. But it kind of is. It’s honestly made me a great engineer. Then again, my anxiety has made being an engineer more difficult. It’s called balance.
This was “fun” when I had no choice but small-shop retail, because I’d get assigned a task that required some thinking and doing, and then get nagged because I didn’t just insta-drop everything in the middle of a thought to hop down from the ladder to go all genius-bar-Willy-Wonka at some shop-zombie that just shuffled in and probably didn’t even know why they entered, much less “What I could help them find.”
Pretty sure every bit of this besides creativity is on my resume in one form or another. I’ve been told by a few interviewers its the best resume they’ve seen, save for my work history…
