ADD/ADHD sufferer doesn’t mean that your professional life remains at standstill. You have other career options to select. Choose suitable job in case you have not found any yet.
Management: At first glance, a managerial position may not sound too ADD-friendly. It requires a lot of attention to everyone else’s work and attention to detail, something most of us ADDers just don’t enjoy. However, if you can bone up your organizational skills and keep focused, you would really like being in control. People with ADD or ADHD also have the ability to “bring people along,”and to excite them such that employees would want to work for you!
Nursing: If you consider all of the different kinds of nursing there are, plus the infinite amount of challenges available, there would probably be few dull moments! You’d also get a degree of autonomy.
Medical: ADD sufferers can opt for the medical career like nursing. This profession requires you showcase extra sensitive attitude. Follow positivism after choosing medical as a career. Select specialized area of it like surgery or gynecology and perform excellently in them. Be a self starter and a thinking professional who works and thinks independently and excitedly.
Attorney: The biggest problem with this field is that you would have to learn to be detail-oriented – this isn’t impossible, just difficult. Many attorneys have a paralegal who works with them, and often this person can be put in charge of much of the detail portion. At any rate, a trial attorney, for example, offers excitement, autonomy, and variety.
Insurance: Your observation about insurance may vary. I feel your yawning when you go through this piece. Do you think insurance profession has any discrepancy? Think twice how you would do as claims adjuster or insurance sales representative. This job is less monotonous hence provide you enough freedom. You enjoy variety and develop contacts.
Computer: Let’s face it, some computer work is boring, boring, boring – all that sitting in one place doing the same thing over and over! What I am talking about here is different. If you love computers, love inventing new programs, or enjoy taking computers apart and putting them back together again, you may find the perfect job. SImply putting in data will drive you insane!
Recreation: Health filed is not affected by any recession. This field has uninterrupted growth. Make career in it if you are physically talented and well built. Do you have zeal to teach others about health and well-being? If you think so try your luck in coach, dance instructor and fitness trainer jobs.
Consultant: Choose a career which brings challenge and demands commitment from your side. Consulting leads to entrepreneurship. Usually consultants are told to sort out the problems with an effective solution. You are trusted and paid for applying intelligence, and your ideas are implemented by others for having result-oriented output. You have freedom, autonomy, choice and opportunity to apply simulation in this specific area.
Creative: ADD sufferers can’t be surpassed due to this disorder. They have done tremendous contribution in creative fields through their imaginative approach. They perform wonderfully in dance, writing and et al. Have systematic goal to make things smoother. Artists are independent thinkers and trained in generalizing ideas. You should be systematic in your creative work so that whatever you create becomes a masterpiece. There are many career options in it to choose from teaching art, working in an advertising office, starting creative ventures or writing in public relations firms.
Introspection is the primary step while choosing your career particularly when you suffer from any attention deficit disorder. Plenty of ADHD-friendly careers are for you. You can’t make out a complete list in one go. Make sure you deeply analyze your strengths and weaknesses associated with ADD/ADHD syndrome before choosing a career. Once you are thorough, it becomes easy to shortlist suitable jobs and henceforth you attend interviews of your choice. Do remember that not all jobs would fulfill your criteria in ADD but you will have the preference to choose the best.
Hopefully things have become clear by now. If you are still hallucinated to choose a career path for you have some counseling from a career specialist or vocational psychologist. They would help you specify your job search after studying your profile. What you require at this juncture is tell them about your ADD/ADHD in detail and explain other related issues to make them zero upon a specific career option for you.
Rene Lacapeis a seasoned health staff that faces the people under the stress management section. He knows well what to do with them and has been a great help to them too. You can check his website anytime and call him to know more.
