Today it seems these are the people with the best of life. We live in a 1700 for 4.I herd a census you might be interested in which is why I am posting this.
ungraduated income average 1800. a month
High school graduates 27,000.
college graduates 50,000.
higher education 74,000.
Here is why some can get Govt. help. This I guess is only for highschool dropouts. They need to wakeup and see they are not the only ones who need help. If this is so why finish school then. I quit cause I wanted play over education.
Elementary and high school were real easy for me. College was not a problem as long as the subject was a.) not involving any math, and b.) interesting to me. Then I could hyperfocus quite easily.
I remember being part of a research team in college and by 2/3s of the way through the year the rest of the group had me figured out. A newbie was complaining about me and another person shut her down "we let him do what he wants and he'll do more in an hour than most people can do in three".
Income, I do OK. I should be doing better given the age that I am and education level. But we survive.
I make gross income of ,920. It sucks especially for office work.
ok, as with all of us here, I've been feeling abnormal for a long time now.
But when you guys said you breezed through school, my jaw dropped. I thought that was the most "non-add" thing about me. I could retain what the teacher said easily and the info just kind of came back to me when I needed it. The best description every teacher of mine gave was that I didn't "Live up to my potential". I always got A's and B's but put little to no effort into it.
In college it got ALOT tougher because prof's didn't lecture on everything and I actually had to research, read and write reports. Tests were still relatively easy (I was always the first one done :) but all the other stuff took me forever.
MM
Here's the one thing that's kind of non-AD(H)D about me. School has always been a breeze for me. Throughout K-12 I got As and Bs with little to no effort. College was more of a challenge because I was far more interested in socializing than studying, but graduated with a 2.3 (lowest semester a 2.2 and highest, a 2.8). Now I've got a 4.0 average in a doctoral program which is also pretty easy for me. It takes time to do the reading and writing but the thinking comes easily. I'm also very prolific in terms of the number of intellectual "bits" I can juggle and the speed with which I can write (although reading is normally slower unless I'm skimming to look only for certain information that I know ahead of time).
I think I hyperfocus a lot. Does anyone else find school to be a relative piece of cake? Most people describe problems with school. Maybe that's the "H" part (which I don't think I have)? I'm not sure.
I wish my income was more, we both work full time and still do not make near or close to that amound. We make together less than 50,000Jillette38513.8102083333I struggled my way thru college for a couple of reasons
1> My parents made me
2> I knew I needed to do something with my life other than sit around
3> There was alot of thoughts flying thru my head and I hoped I could use college to figure some of them out
On point #1, I never quite understood. I mean I paid for it (or I am still paying for it, 15 more payments to go!) But the pressure was there and pressure can be good
on Point #2, I saw older friends who went to work out of high school and as they closed in on their 30's were still waiting tables for an hour plus tips. Not really the life I wanted.
On Point #3, college actually came thru. When I dropped out of college for a couple of years to work in retail, my mom told me I had to finish for my own good. She said that college wasn't really about the book learning but it was a way for people to learn about themselves and grow up. That actually made some sense and although it was a constant struggle, I finished.
Maybe it's just me but living off the gov't for the rest of my life sounds like it would suck. What if they cut the program after you've taken their money for the last 15 years? Even with ADD we can succeed.
MM
Yeah, i make quite a bit more. We both work in executive management (although she makes less than i do, smaller company).