Do You Know What Jobs Are The Best Fit for ADHD Adults?

DESCRIPTION: Determining whether your job or career is a good fit entails answering to 5 questions, including whether you’re in the right environment. KEY TAKEAWAYS: * Assessments will not tell you whether you’re in the right job or career. * You’ll need to ask yourself a series of questions to determine whether your job or career is the right one for you.  * You likely will need to upgrade your skills, tools and strategies to be more effective at you job. * After upgrading your skills, tools, and strategies you may determine your current job is not a good fit. Resource: Book: Finding a Career That Works for You: A Step-by-Step Guide to Choosing a Career by Willma Fellman TRANSCRIPT: (00:00): So you’re wondering, are there jobs that are better suited for adults with ADHD than others? Let’s find out. (00:06): You’ve tuned into Scattered Focus, Done – Reimagining Productivity with ADHD, a podcast for ADHD, adults like you who want to learn how to adopt the best strategies, tools, and skills to get your essential work done in a way that works with the way your brain is wired. I’m Marla Cummins, and I’m glad you’re joining me today on this journey to re-imagining productivity with ADHD. So you can get what is important to you done without trying to do it like everyone else. (00:39): Since you’re listening right now. I’m guessing you probably found this podcast because you’re wondering if you’re in the right job or in the right career. Maybe you googled something like, what are the best jobs for A D H D adults? And you found lots of lists entitled something like 20 Best Jobs for People with A D H D. And, as you read these articles, you might even have found promises of dream jobs for people who are easily bored and creative. You might have even found your job on the list of best jobs and wondered how could that be? Because maybe right now you’re struggling to stay afloat. So then you may have jumped to the conclusion that it must be you and not the job. Before you start going down a rabbit hole, let’s take a step back. (01:26): Over the years, countless adults with ADHD have come to me for help because of challenges they were having at work. And part of what we try to untangle is whether their job is a good fit for them given their strengths and challenges. What we discovered in all cases is that they did need to upgrade some combination of skills, strategies, and tools to be more effective at their job. In some cases, we also discovered that they needed to design how they worked differently to be more effective. And in those instances where they didn’t have total control over how they did their work, they might have needed to ask their boss for some changes. But after we did all this work together for some, the particular job, well usually not the career, ended up not being a good fit. And they needed to find a different environment, aka a different job. (02:21): An example was a former client who was an in-house attorney for a large corporation. When she first came to me, she thought that the onus was totally on her to do better. In time though,