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this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2025
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Hey... I built my career on this! My university degree is useless!
Hey I do that!
- I had absolutely no concept of an idea that was associated with ADHD.
- If you are determined and stick to it, with a bit of understanding and luck you can likely figure out most situations if you have an experienced person training you, and you can become oddly good at a large number of absurd and unrelated fields.
- ADHD might actually just be a super hero origin story for those that take it far enough.
That's why I started figuring out beginner courses / tutorials to figure out if I could grasp the basics on something. Though I'm a bit older, so maybe it comes down to being old and not wanting to waste as much time. Least if I don't do good, I learned something. Did some blender one the other year to figure out some 3d modeling, was fun, then got distracted and haven't touched it since. Was neat to understand the graphics side of things though.
Before I was diagnosed, this was legit how I thought. I got lucky, it usually worked
True. That's how I installed Lineage on my old Pixel and set up my home server. I just know I have a limited amount of time before I lose interest, so everything has to be mastered and running smoothly before the clock runs out.
listen man if I didn't have to work 9 to 5 every fucking day I'd have done so many more unfinished projects !!
Too true. I’ve also bullshitted myself into a couple of jobs with his mindset. I keep getting promoted so I guess it’s working, or I’m failing upwards. Either way is fine, same result.
Feeling like Sheldon when you're not Sheldon.
why do i always do this to myself
Cause it's fun! I never feel such a rush of excitement when doing stuff I already know or am able to do wih ease. This has to be how adrenaline junkies feel like.
Oh you can get the barely-doing-things high with easy and simple things too! You just have to wait until there's almost too little time to do them.
AND whilst fully aware about the success ratio of past similar endeavours along with a statistically significant outcome prediction for this one.
Me learning electrical engineering, 3d design, low level programming and several other skills at the same time just to make a ridiculous flashlight...
Edit: btw how does it work that i dont have adhd but somehow almost always relate to adhd memes? Is that normal?
That's me atm! Only difference is that i wanna convert an old laptop into a tablet using a raspberry pi. Good luck to the both of us!
ADHD is a relatable thing. Everyone does ADHD stuff just like everyone poops.
But, if you're pooping 30 times a day and its affecting your quality of life, it's a problem and you might have IBS or something.
Similarly, if your ADHD-like tendencies are happening so much that its affecting your quality of life, it is also a problem and you might have ADHD or something.
Either way when something normal is becoming not normal, its best to see a doctor if you can.
Ah ok thx. Ive already been to a doctor about this and autism and other stuff because a lot of people in my family have them but i did not get diagnosed with anything.
Oh hey, this is how i got where i am now; new team was created, then expanded, and then my coworkers ran circles around me with automation and scripting, and now i don't know what the fuck i do for a living and also have no defined tasks to do to even try to catch up to them (beyond what they occasionally throw my way).
Gotta be AuDHD, then you'll figure it out, get it all done, and then never be able to replicate it and also never want to try. But at least it will have been solved once for a little while.
This is so relatable... Sometimes i come up with software development that i then spend a month hyper focusing on. Working 15 hours per day on it and actually make it work! But if i then look back at my code, i have zero idea who wrote that monstrosity and how the hell it works 🤷
Oh boy, I wish I could tell you a story about this without doxxing myself. Holy fuck does it hit hard.
Mr President?
Lmao
I don't remember how I got here
What if you swap the locality name for "Metropolis", and yours for "Lex Luthor"?
Let’s just say I was morphing into something in my career, then was made a ridiculous offer for more money doing something I wasn’t fully qualified to do with the promise that there would be plenty of time to ramp up and develop. I took it, the timeline constricted, I got laid off (might as well have been fired), and it derailed my career from the trajectory I was on. Then the entire tech sector went into downturn, everyone’s doing RTO, every job has 487261884 applicants, and I’m about ready to cash in my chips.
I don't understand the part with chips at the end. Why was the offer ridiculous ? do you mean the compensation was ridiculously higher than your usual ? I kinda did that recently, and am still hard at work to finish the thing in question,... so I can relate, I think.
Yeah, compensation was too high to turn down. I was happy where I was and going in the right direction.
I see. This is something to ruminate, thanks for sharing.
While I secretly(?) agree. Don't give up on big ideas. I do think a lot of big ideas that grew to actual big projects, exactly happened like that. When there's enough approval and a lot people are joining (so that motivation isn't lost as quickly again).
Sucking at something is the first step to being kinda good at it.
That's how I became a chemist lol
Sounding real close to conservative logic but yea you do you…
That's how I got to senior tech lead on my team (software engineer)
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