I am just about to retire from a job at which I spent 26 years. I feel I should have progressed further as far as promotions are concerend but I never applied for management. I did a good job when I was given a task if it was not too abstract. If there was an established procedure for completing the task I did it well. If it required me to focus on developing a new procedure I avoided it as I did not have enough interest in the job to focus on developing a new process. I soon discovered that I was a task oriented person. I guess this makes me a soldier as opposed to a leader. This realization did not come easy! It's not that I didn't have good ideas. I just couldn't organize and focus them into action once again I simply lost focus or interest. This was probably one of the first indicators I became aware of that hinted of ADD. If someone else was setting deadlines and assigning tasks I was fairly successful. Left up to myself I lost interest but usually just avoided being in that situatiuon in the first place. I certainly had no desire to be the motivation for anyone else such as in management. Does anyone else feel this way as far as working with an abstact environment?