WHEN YOU HAIL DOWN A JOB... | ADHD Information
Sounds good to be driving soon! Best of wishes and love the 'tude'dude!
My prayer, your wish , happiness and self value. Don't sell yourself short, you know the area and you can be the best! Things will 'happen ' out O.K.!
Hello All.
Had a tiring time on my first day and spent the most of this day riding along with a driver. Took my Dexedrine at the proper times but had no money for food so I felt really ill and kind of drugged out. I had a few oranges and water and prayed it would sustain me. It was all I could do so the Supervisor (who was also my trainer) wouldn't think I was some wierdo on street drugs. But as it turns out, he was pretty impressed and felt like I could do it. I asked him all kinds of questions as intelligiently as I could, to compensate for the dizziness and as strange as I felt inside.
Oh my Gawd, the maps! I have to calm down and really read it and try to block the anxiety and fear out! It makes me feel so inept! It is mostly in Riverside, Ca and I only know where I've been living which is Hemet, Ca.
I have a question to pose for my fellow ADHD-ers. Is it an ADHD thing for us to feel really vexed when starting a new job and desperately wanting to be done with the preliminaries and be like the veterans that do things with fluidity? I understand that you have to work for that, but I just can't seem to wait and almost feel jealous of those who have. I detest that out of control feeling, when you don't know anything!
The truth about this job, as dangerous as it might be, is that I need to make it work. I'm waiting for them to realize what they've done in trusting me and take my car away. I mean, a year or so ago, I was selling drugs and doing a lot of them and then now, I've got this job. It's what I've been praying for and I plan to muster courage because I truly feel God will help me. This job was too easy to get, and I truly felt the hand of my higher entity at work. I really shouldn't have this job with my driving record. I've committed the forbidden in 2001 when I had an accident as a driver for Dominoes Pizza. Still, an opportunity was granted, my prayer heard.
Hey, thank you guys for being there to hear me. I am so scared sometimes I cry about it. But it helps to check in on this site and hear your feedback. Wish me luck and pray for me.
Lewiss
good luck. good luck. and congratulations. and yes, i think it is an ADDer thing to want (to expect) to be able to do everything perfectly first time --- and a pain in the butt it is too to have an attitude like that.
take your time - you'll get there if you don't get too frustrated with yourself (it'll be dealing with that - that will be harder than learning the routes etc. but as long as you are aware it is an ADDer thing then i think it will be much easier to deal with it.).
did i say congratulations. congratulations.
It is common for all people to be a little uptight first day on the job unless they don't care about the job I'd say. [QUOTE=Lewiss]
I'm at a point in my life where I feel the fear but I don't care, I'm going to work my ass off. I've been feeling like a victim since I got violently struck at my last job (and then fired as a result) and I'm so tired of it. As a matter of fact, a little angry about it.[/QUOTE]
Join the club!!
[QUOTE=Lewiss]I don't care I find out I'm the worst driver in the world, I'm going to do my damndest![/quote]
Yea, Lewiss! Way to have a positive attitude! If you could bottle it up and mail a little of it to me, I'd be most appreciative. 
Just accepted a job today driving a taxicab. I start tomorrow morning. Been diagnosed for only a couple of months. I am 35, have worked practically half of those years on speed and now hoping the difference it makes being on Dexedrine and knowing I have ADHD will mean a vast improvement in my performance.
I'm at a point in my life where I feel the fear but I don't care, I'm going to work my ass off. I've been feeling like a victim since I got violently struck at my last job (and then fired as a result) and I'm so tired of it. As a matter of fact, a little angry about it. It is going to be interesting to see how much the med and the things I've learned in the year off of work (miserably without funds) will serve me tomorrow. I don't care I find out I'm the worst driver in the world, I'm going to do my damndest!
wow takes guts. I seem to recall you are in a big city (LA?) and cab drivers get a lot of stress. I assume you had to get a "hack" license by memorizing a city map and that would suck even the way I am now!
Best of luck. Just watch your back - it's not the safest trade out there right now. You're a better man that I am Gunga Din! Er.. Lewiss!!
Right on! Good luck! [QUOTE=Lewiss]Just accepted a job today driving a taxicab. I start tomorrow morning. Been diagnosed for only a couple of months. I am 35, have worked practically half of those years on speed and now hoping the difference it makes being on Dexedrine and knowing I have ADHD will mean a vast improvement in my performance.
I'm at a point in my life where I feel the fear but I don't care, I'm going to work my ass off. I've been feeling like a victim since I got violently struck at my last job (and then fired as a result) and I'm so tired of it. As a matter of fact, a little angry about it. It is going to be interesting to see how much the med and the things I've learned in the year off of work (miserably without funds) will serve me tomorrow. I don't care I find out I'm the worst driver in the world, I'm going to do my damndest!
[/QUOTE]I've worked all my pre-adult and adult life on speed.
Now people are driving faster than I am.
What the hell are they on?
I was on Fwy 99.
Btw, I was fired last summer (that's how I found these boards: I was bored).
I sued them, and won.
Lot's and lots' o'
dollars.
But,
I
spent them already. Oh, darn. Time to get fired again.
Cool. I've always found driving jobs a good fit and have even considered the cabbie route. I had a job briefly as a tow truck driver and a little longer one as one of the guys who give jump starts and fix flats out on the road which had many fine points as well.