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blk posted:When I was in high school I was diagnosed with ADD but shrugged it off; I've been diagnosed again as an adult (now called inattentive-type ADHD; no hyperactivity) and I'm wondering how to treat it so I can hold my grip better at work. I've previously floundered in full time jobs but have done well with part time gigs; I'm currently working full time and am banging my head against the wall by lunch. Anyone else have this going on? What worked for you? Sup ADD/ADHD goons. The self employed bit worked for me. I'm a contractor for several terrible companies, but together they add up to an okay income (for me anyway - most would laugh at what I bring home, but I work about 25-30 hours a week and don't spend much except on beer) A bit of  helps me keep sadbrains away.I used to love retail, much for the reason that CPP pointed out. But dealing with people in general just pisses me off now, and the older I get, the harder it gets to just smile and nod instead of telling them to gently caress off. e: diagnosed with ADD around 8 years old, diagnosed with anxiety and sadbrains in my mid 20s e2: ooh something shiny
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I'm also ADHD so what I do is switch between three different projects I have right now and suddenly the 8 hours is over and I've actually been there for almost 9 This is without adderall too but I also have imposter syndrome kicking my balls and telling me other devs take half as long so that doesn't help
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Mar 29, 2017 06:11
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If I don't have several projects at once (even something as basic as "do the dishes, vacuum, do laundry"), nothing gets done. Pile of dishes in the sink? Doesn't exist until laundry or vacuum day. Laundry? Doesn't exist until sink or vacuum day. Vacuum? Doesn't exist until laundry and dishes day. I have to be able to switch back and forth among multiple things, otherwise I work at something for a few minutes and get bored. edit: never really thought about it until now, but this is probably why driving anything with an automatic drives me crazy. I need the 3 pedals + knob in my hand. 
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Mar 29, 2017 06:13
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:I used to love retail, much for the reason that CPP pointed out. But dealing with people in general just pisses me off now, and the older I get, the harder it gets to just smile and nod instead of telling them to gently caress off. This, except IT support. After the third time this week of you not being able to print because you didn't turn the printer on... I'm not diagnosed, but I suspect mild ADHD, and/or mild autism spectrum (hello? goon). Neither bad enough to go on meds at present, so I've not bothered to get a diagnosis. poo poo didn't exist when I was a kid - they just worked around it, or you were a problem child. I got lucky with good teachers, I think.
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Mar 29, 2017 06:46
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I love working retail and everyone I know thinks I am nuts.
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Mar 29, 2017 06:55
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Darchangel posted:This, except IT support. After the third time this week of you not being able to print because you didn't turn the printer on... Same boat. No diagnosis/teachers worked with what ever issues I had due to my creativity/smarts. I wired my grade school for Cat 5 @14yrs old. In high school I started to help the former VP who was reassigned to IT. Guy didn't know how IP addressing worked. I would get called out of class on a weekly basis, finally got so bad they assigned me a period just to help him. I was a C+ student, but known by everyone in the school. I'm actually having the same issue BLK is to some extent. By 11am I'm bored to death even with a list of projects ahead of me. It's not good for me or the business. Thinking it's finally time to see someone about figuring out what's up with me and move on. I don't need this hanging over me and I'm tired of the excuses I keep making.
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Mar 29, 2017 07:12
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Selling our house and finally all staged and ready for professional photography tomorrow. Actually living in a what amounts to a show home loving sucks.
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Mar 29, 2017 07:25
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slidebite posted:Selling our house and finally all staged and ready for professional photography tomorrow. As someone who's been looking at home listings for the past two years and maybe might buy a home for real this time: You're doing the right thing. Seeing a home full of poo poo is godawful.
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Mar 29, 2017 07:27
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Rhyno posted:I love working retail and everyone I know thinks I am nuts. You're insane
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Mar 29, 2017 07:42
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funny Star Wars parody posted:You're insane I HAVE PEOPLE SKILLS
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Mar 29, 2017 07:45
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I actually liked my lovely retail job way back in the day, but the pay was loving lovely as hell.
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Mar 29, 2017 07:54
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I loved working retail at Apple Because my coworkers were cool as gently caress. Also my discounts. Everything else sucked except working nights and sleeping in
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Mar 29, 2017 08:10
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Ive moved and raked out about 60 cubic meters of gum chip mulch in the last two days. My shoulders and back are officially on strike and hate me.
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Rhyno posted:I HAVE PEOPLE SKILLS I'm trying to reconcile that comment and failing Edit : I've lost 3kgs inthe last two days and now I cant loving fart. gently caress YOU STOMACH CAT INTERCEPTOR fucked around with this message at 08:32 on Mar 29, 2017 |
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Mar 29, 2017 08:29
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gently caress. Right when I was finally falling asleep, my weather radio went apeshit. Okay, severe thunderstorm warning. Big deal, that's the norm for this time of year. Falling back asleep again...  TORNADO WARNING at the western edge of the county to the west.. I'm at the east edge of my countygently caress you spring. CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Edit : I've lost 3kgs inthe last two days and now I cant loving fart. gently caress YOU STOMACH I made a pot of beans yesterday, and they've had me farting ever since. How many kg of texmex-style pinto beans do you want? (warning: you might poo poo yourself)
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Mar 29, 2017 08:35
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^^^ Dude, its springtime in dfw. Just assume you'll be killed by a tornado or stoned to death by hail stones and sleep through it. Its why I did.  CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:I'm trying to reconcile that comment and failing Its ok, we know the real rhyno, not the mask of customer service that he wore.  Also, my annual review was met with flying colors and a maximum raise was issued. All 3% of it. Lol, retail. Edit: I also found a road that is somewhat fun to cruise down. Too bad its like a 30-45 minute drive to get there and its only 10 miles long. It does put me 10 minutes away from another good road though. Elmnt80 fucked around with this message at 09:04 on Mar 29, 2017 |
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Mar 29, 2017 08:37
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Rhyno posted:I HAVE PEOPLE SKILLS Remember: just because you can doesn't mean you have to. People who willingly work in retail confuse the poo poo out of me.
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Mar 29, 2017 08:42
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:I'm trying to reconcile that comment and failing You don't really realize how much good farts matter until they begin to betray you.
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Mar 29, 2017 08:43
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Powershift posted:You don't really realize how much good farts matter until they begin to betray you. Surely the ultimate fart betrayal is the shart?
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Made it to drift heaven, doing a service in the snow is a first.
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SquirrelGrip posted:Made it to drift heaven, doing a service in the snow is a first. MORE PHOTOS
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Rhyno posted:I HAVE PEOPLE SKILLS PC Load Letter!?! What the gently caress does that even mean??!?
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Mar 29, 2017 11:33
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Powershift posted:You don't really realize how much good farts matter until they begin to betray you. Oh Lord this! Thank gently caress whatever boiling brew in my guts finally escaped. Talk about deeply offensive smell tho. quote:(warning: you might poo poo yourself) Got that covered right now, thanks.
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Mar 29, 2017 12:18
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blk posted:When I was in high school I was diagnosed with ADD but shrugged it off; I've been diagnosed again as an adult (now called inattentive-type ADHD; no hyperactivity) and I'm wondering how to treat it so I can hold my grip better at work. I've previously floundered in full time jobs but have done well with part time gigs; I'm currently working full time and am banging my head against the wall by lunch. Anyone else have this going on? What worked for you? Im ADD and was diagnosed on school and spent nearly a decade taking Adderall and coming off it was the best thing I ever did cuz i finally felt like myself again Anywho, try studying meditation techniques, I find it helps to control and slow my thought process down enough to concentrate on simple tasks. But other than that I find spending 5 minutes on my phone for every 20 minutes of actual work helps too
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Bought a spin bike today We think the missus has developed a wheat/gluten intolerance as she's been gassy/throwing up after meals with symptoms getting worse since just before Christmas. After rejecting my offer of shooting her since she can no longer go out and have a spontaneous pie and beer she started gluten free a week or so back and we've been testing how everything is - turns out a lot of stuff is quite nice. We've had pastas and cakes which you wouldn't know are gluten free (pasta goes a bit funny if it goes cold) and tonight we are having chili which is already gluten free so don't worry too much.
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It's very rarely wheat or gluten, get to the doctor and get her tested so you find out what's really wrong. E: hell I developed lactose intolerance last year at 35, it happens
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:gently caress. Right when I was finally falling asleep, my weather radio went apeshit. Okay, severe thunderstorm warning. Big deal, that's the norm for this time of year. Just ignore the tornado warning. What's the worst that could happen? You land in the next county over, crush an old lady and become lord of the midgets?
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Wistful of Dollars posted:Just ignore the tornado warning. What's the worst that could happen? You land in the next county over, crush an old lady and become lord of the midgets? I think I read somewhere that only works if you start in Kansas.
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Mar 29, 2017 15:37
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Does anyone have a new Malibu 1.8L hybrid? PM me please.
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Cop Porn Popper posted:^^^ I slept through it all. Woke up and looked at the tornado warning on the phone from 2AM and shrugged. Wistful of Dollars posted:Just ignore the tornado warning. What's the worst that could happen? You land in the next county over, crush an old lady and become lord of the midgets? Yeah, I'm kind of like "so?" I don't have a basement, and literally no interior rooms in my house. Best I can do is the middle hallway, or maybe the closet therein, if it wasn't stuffed completely full of poo poo. Even then, no way all three of my family are going to fit at the same time. Bring it on, tornado. I will ride the wind to glory.
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Wistful of Dollars posted:Just ignore the tornado warning. What's the worst that could happen? You land in the next county over, crush an old lady and become lord of the midgets? Years ago when i was in Talladega Alabama covering a NASACAR race, I decided to tent camp in the track infield since it was free and i could use the showers in the garage area. One night before going to bed, I remember hearing people talk about a storm coming but didn't really pay much attention. Cue waking up in the middle of the night to my tent trying to take flight and tornado sirens blaring with inaudible announcement which I assumed was saying PUT YOUR HEAD BETWEEN YOUR LEGS AND KISS YOUR rear end GOODBYE. I have never got up and got dressed that fast in my life, the whole time trying not to poo poo myself while doing it, and got into my car which wasn't all that safe but a hell of a lot safer than a tent. That morning in the media center everyone was freaking out about what happened including most of the drivers when it was comfirmed a tornado had indeed touched down very close to the track 
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S-Town is a very good Podcast. They have thankfully released all chapters in one day. I am about half way through and this story is v. good.
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Thanks for the feedback everyone.the spyder posted:Same boat. No diagnosis/teachers worked with what ever issues I had due to my creativity/smarts. I wired my grade school for Cat 5 @14yrs old. In high school I started to help the former VP who was reassigned to IT. Guy didn't know how IP addressing worked. I would get called out of class on a weekly basis, finally got so bad they assigned me a period just to help him. I was a C+ student, but known by everyone in the school. Hey, how are you guys doing? Can I bring you dinner? In other news, I live in a town full of busybody old people and a police force with notoriously too much time on their hands. Today on Nextdoor: quote:Some one called the cops on a jeep yesterday for two teenagers drunk driving. Assuming they called 911. It turns out it was me(closer to retirement then teenage) and my daughter with permit learning to drive. Her first time ever traversing her way to school and I had to twist her arm to do it. 15-20mph pulling off to side for cars to pass, I was so proud of her. Next 3 cops arrive at my house with bullet proof flak jackets and guns after doing investigating for and hour, to interview my horrified,inconsolable daughter. Going to get student driver magnet. Just a suggestion that people slow down, relax and not be so quick to waste cops time. This was a special moment I will not be able to get back.
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Darchangel posted:I slept through it all. Woke up and looked at the tornado warning on the phone from 2AM and shrugged. I have only one interior room - bathroom. Everything else in my apartment is on an outside wall. I'm on the top floor anyway, so my floor will be the first to go. Some pretty impressive damage in Rockwall; the neighborhood that got hit is about a 15 minute drive from me. I slept through it..
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the spyder posted:Same boat. No diagnosis/teachers worked with what ever issues I had due to my creativity/smarts. I wired my grade school for Cat 5 @14yrs old. In high school I started to help the former VP who was reassigned to IT. Guy didn't know how IP addressing worked. I would get called out of class on a weekly basis, finally got so bad they assigned me a period just to help him. I was a C+ student, but known by everyone in the school.   Never had a diagnosis myself because my little brother was severely ADD to the point that he needed to be removed from regular class and put in an alternative learning program where at-risk kids could deal drugs and become successful. 15 years later he's an accomplished chef with a wife and kid and having a great life. I'm full of debt and regret and, much like you, am looking at my enormous to-do list and feeling utterly bored as soon as I sit down. Co-worker pointed out that one of my Windows servers that's running Apache has an expired cert (that I do not care about) and is using insecure SSL/TLS protocols (which I do not care about). There's a weird feeling that comes over me at those points, and I expect it's the same feeling I would have if I were standing on a cliff with someone trying to push me over: I do not want to do <thing> and nothing in the world is going to make me. It's infuriating. I've had 25 jobs (I'm 32 years old), and I'm just as tired of hopping jobs and explaining to my friends/loves ones why I'm quitting yet another job as I am with my general disposition on the job. Nothing's engaging, I get no sense of relief or accomplishment when something's completed, it just sucks.
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I've found that I am just extremely apathetic about everything because in the whole scope of things it doesn't matter and I don't care My job? It's neat and keeps me busy and fed but I don't really care about it. If I got let go tomorrow I would only slightly care because then my wife would feel pressure to make up for my income (from herself, not me. She's a type a and I'm a type uh, z?) but we both make enough money that if one of us quit working we would still be comfortable Idk life is meaningless who cares etc
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Every paycheck is a struggle and I'm one random $200 bill away from total collapse.
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the spyder posted:Photo proof I'm an idiot. I cannot stop laughing at this. Sucks you had to learn that the hard way, but thanks for the life lesson. slidebite posted:Selling our house and finally all staged and ready for professional photography tomorrow. Seconded! We just had our house staged on Monday. GLWS goon buddy. I'm hoping that we can manage to pull off an open house this weekend and get this bitch sold so my wife can stop waffling on whether or not she made the right choice to build a new home. I still think it's retarded to build a new home when there's so many good (and much cheaper) ones out there. But, whatever... happy wife, happy life right?
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Every paycheck is a struggle and I'm one random $200 bill away from total collapse. 
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At least in America, talking about finances is rather taboo, but most people aren't nearly as financially stable as they seem My coworker is married and they have 1 daughter and she is 7 months pregnant with a second daughter. They own a house, 2 cars, and are trying to save up and buy a new SUV. To the world, the look like they're doing great, I was super jealous of her success Friday night, she was complaining to me that she was having trouble making bills this month and had to work 10 days in a row to make her mortgage payment and she was feeling random contractions due to the stress. Her husband has been off work for a month because the remodelling company he works for has no clients and has no work to be done. Neither of them have degrees or even real insurance, and she is planning on taking 4 months off of work for the birth to take care of the kids Even my parents, who are the head of the local teacher's union and the care coordinator for a hospice system have their own financial woes. Especially since my dad might lose his pension and my mom has only $12k in her 401k at 52 because they were relying on his great benefits for retirement. My dad drives a 85 (I think) 944 with 220k miles on it that has a bad rear diff, and my mom drives a 05 Outback with 145k and a failing transmission. They're looking at selling the house or putting in nearly $25k in repairs to the plumbing and leaking foundation after the massive flooding destroyed the basement Looking at the grand scheme of things, I'm happy to have only $4k in credit card debt at 24. And sure, I might be temporarily back in my parents' house and out of my degree program, but I'm getting better and going to move back out soon. I'm not on top of the world, but I'm not underwater either
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