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Post by sierra on Nov 24, 2003 21:17:15 GMT -5
I probably wasn't successful. When I take these polls I usually want to check more than one option.
I tried to make these options either mutually exclusive or fix it so one answer would be more right than the others.
Polls aren't easy to write!
Here's my answer
I picked that at some point I figured it out but I was wrong. I thought I knew in HS. I thought I knew in college several times. I was sure I knew once I started my career. But what I do keeps changing and mostly I've liked each change better than the status quo. Must be that stimulus seeking behavior or something.
Right now I'm thinking real hard about throwing this career on the trash heap and spending a few years really working hard on advanced study skills and test taking skills and higher maths with my sprouts before they get to college. If I do make getting them ready for college my career I have no idea what I'll do next. Probably nothing to do with computers aside from for fun. Maybe art related in some way.
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Post by LitlBaa on Nov 25, 2003 2:20:30 GMT -5
I'm responding for my hubby. He didn't have any idea of what he wanted to do, just worked at whatever came along. When we got married almost four years ago, I convinced him to start college. He's majoring in Electronic Systems Technology and has plans to get into telecommunications when he graduates (May 2005). He never thought he could do anything of any importance before starting college. I'm so proud of him!
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Post by Honeysmom on Nov 25, 2003 18:55:19 GMT -5
Had to check figured it out in college...but that still may change. I am at my 3rd college and in my 3rd different school of whatever. First banking and finance, then teaching (totally abondaned that now, I do not have the patience) now I am going to be a nurse. I don't think I will change again b/c DH has started throwing around the term "career student." I think I finally found something I like. Actually, I would way rather just be like a couch or la-z-boy tester!
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Post by susanthemom on Nov 30, 2003 1:57:16 GMT -5
Well, I can think of atleast ten different things I'd love to do with my life. I'm educated to do exactly two of those things. And I don't have any time to do any of them. So, I am what I am and it's a whole lot different than I could've ever planned for, but I wouldn't do anything else for now. My "career" is deeply buried under piles of dirty laundry and kiddie drawings.  Susan |
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Post by ridgerunner on Dec 1, 2003 23:30:15 GMT -5
I checked got it right the first time.. Because I always wanted to be a MOM! I do that fairly well (sometimes  ) The "job" that I do for money is deliver mail. It is the greatest job. My hubby says I get paid to ride around all day, talk to people I don't know and listen to the radio. Actually it is a little harder than that. I have to "remember" who lives where and who has moved. That is the hard part. I also get to drive from the wrong side of my truck. That is what everyone thinks is the hard part. It is really easier to do than you think. Am ridgerunner |
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Post by on_edge on Dec 2, 2003 12:07:39 GMT -5
I thought I had it figured out, but was wrong. I had a job that I was quite successfull at, but thought I needed something more exciting and better pay. I succeeded in getting that job and was miserable. Now, I am at home trying to fix all the things I ignored while climbing the ladder.
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Post by sierra on Dec 4, 2003 3:08:28 GMT -5
Dang this is interesting! Only 10 people responded so far but half of us though we had it figured out and were wrong.
I wonder how that compares to non adhders?
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Post by rosyred45 on Dec 4, 2003 6:55:49 GMT -5
I should have put I got it right the first try, since I grew up with my mom taking care of Kids, and that's what I have always done.
Out of the "jobs" that take out for taxes and all, I've only had one that wasn't related to child care. I worked at a nursery. with mums. No wonder I don't like mums.
But I enjoy doing so many different things, I always told me self that if I didn't like where I was, I'd move on. I must be pretty happy, been at the school for 12 years.
Have a great day
Kaiti
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Post by tridlette on Jan 12, 2004 0:19:16 GMT -5
I still can't decide which way to vote... I knew in HS that I wanted to be a paramedic. But I didn't have the courage to go for it, since my parents expected me to go to "real" college. I loved being a Respiratory Therapist, but when DH got a job transfer, I left that behind and went for the paramedic job. There is no money in it though, so I supplemented with fun jobs... like Teddy Bear Counselor (phone sales for the Vermont Teddy Bear Company), and 1 hour photo technician, toy store clerk, manager of an exclusive swim club (yuk!), nursing home staff (lasted 3 days!).
DH asked me tonight if I know what I want to do with my life. I told him that for now I love being a home school mom. But I really liked dispatching, but not as much as the temp. job I had doing what he calls "boring" data entry ~ patient charges for the hospital or ambulance billing department. It sounds boring, but I thrived on it.
So, what to answer? Yes, I knew in HS, but I can't make a living on that job. So, I know what I want to do, but it is way to much fun to just stay home and teach my children. (they learned really quickly from me how to blow spit balls in restaraunts, hehehe!)
I didn't answer the poll, because I can't check off "all of the above!)
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Post by Douglas on Feb 6, 2004 9:53:33 GMT -5
I have had a TERRIBLE time, career-wise ... I have been an IT professional, a researcher, an engineer, a psychologist, a musician, and even a minister ... but the only career that is now compatible with my condition is Writer, because it offers me solitude, control over my interactions with others, and freedom of schedule ...
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Post by sweety on Feb 6, 2004 11:14:11 GMT -5
;DKnew in high school I wanted to be a RN. Had to will myself to study in college. (Majored in Nursing minored in Dorm Parties) Got burned out after 8 years, went back to school, got a degree in Merchandising worked for Penney's for 10 months and was told I was "too nice" for retail. Went back to nursing. Am working for a tissue bank now and love it. I did work in several areas of hospital nursing though.
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Post by aaa-alison on Mar 13, 2004 22:31:05 GMT -5
Thank God for my job. My husband and I are own a Mobile DJ business and I get to teach dances, DJ, work at home on Weddings and book work. I get to basically be alone working. We DJ/MC parties and Weddings, a high stimulus joy for me (except during boring dinner time) and we get paid really well for it. In five hours, I can make what I would have made unhappily working for someone else. I was fired or quit 12 jobs before I met my hubby and he helped me find out about my ADHD and generalized anxiety disorder. Our business is perfect for me. I work alone-which is great - even though it does get lonely at times. I make tons of errors but as long as I don't get crazy defensive with my husband, I learn and get better. But look, I couldn't have done this well with the business, if it wasn't for the fact that I'm medicated. I can do stuff now cause of that. I'm on 72 ml of Concerta and 40 ml of prozac. Before, when I was working on our biz without medication, I focused on getting nothing done really well and losing information great. So on this dose I can do a reasonable job, but lord knows- anything but working like this would be death for me. I need structure but I need love and understanding, which my husband-my boss gives me. In the real world, I would not be doing this well.
Cause I'd make tons of mistakes and be treated meanly, and I wouldn't be able to do whatever I want to do with my day. If I want to crazy hyperfocus in the morning then take a nap and then knit, play piano, ect. I can. If I want to work out in between every biz letter draft I write to help me stay focused, I do. And if I feel like crappy, I sleep. My husband helps to coach me and teach me how to be my best and he is tough with me when he feels I can take it and soft with me when he knows I am sad. He is a great man and I am very lucky. He loves to help me and finds my disability interesting-even though it drives him crazy too. I love being a female DJ and helping to bring life to a dance floor. I love dancing and I love our biz. I would not be as happy working anywhere else. It is just too hard for me to work like other people do. So screw it-why try? I am not a lessor person for taking the path that works. I guess in some ways I am a greater person cause I accepted -and it was hard with all my ego-that I need to work in a small team with a coach to focus me and to cover for me when I am in a crunch. That is my secret for success. The intelligence part of ADHD for me is the real devil-it had me think so much-"but I'm so smart-I can do so much better"-but I wasn't doing well at all. It is not intelligence that seems to matter in this materialistic world. It is attention to detail that scores numbers in most poles.
I just know I need people and that is okay. I need people to strenghten me because I am weak in some ways. But that is okay too. I think everyone is weak in some ways and it doesn't matter to admit it and help people to make you stronger. This I think, is my life lesson. My mom always told me growing up-that "I could do anything I put my mind too"-yeah right. It should be more like-"I can do anything I ask my Husband, psychitrist, psychologist, father, sister, friends, and mother to help me to do". And you know what-I think that is okay-cause isn't life all about learning how to survive it and be happy.
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Post by buttercup on Jun 21, 2004 11:56:16 GMT -5
I want to do everything. My current list:
*Screenwriter
*Develop learning programs (educational TV) - what on earth do I know about this? Absolutely nothing...I just like to watch
*Makeup artist
*Teach various classes (visualization, memory, project planning, self esteem, ADHD issues, managing depression naturally, and on and on and on)
Feel like a mess.
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