I loathe work | ADHD Information
haha glen w. i wonder what you would say on a bad of work.
why i hate work
1. i work as a food vendor in a sh*tty little overcrowded theme park called bonfante gardens.
2. i dont speak spanish and have a very hard to decipphering english from soccer moms and their little brats who change their orders right AFTER i get thier food.
3. i get paid minimum wage.
4. i have to hand count about 600 dollars by hand, 200 of which dollars ARE IN CHANGE! i start daydreaming by about the 350 dollar mark and lose my place only to start over.
5. the company never gave me job training.
6. my break is always right before i go home so its more of taking my break on my own time. lol
and work sucks
Here's a positive swing - Why I DO like work now that I've got ADHD under control!
1. I get to use my energy on something useful where I'm needed.
2. I get to see all my friends and give them extra smiles and supportive talks.
3. I get to hear my boss tell me "you're doing a GREAT job!"
4. I get to help others get better at their job too.
5. I get to tell people about ADHD and let them see that we can be useful and we're not handicapped or "disabled" when we get help.
6. I get time while working to sing happy tunes where the machine noises cover up my not-so-great voice and I can enjoy it all by myself!
Just thought I'd let everyone have a chance to post the positive side of working - before or after getting better.
I hate unemployment. But only the lack of cash part.The top ten reasons why I loathe work when I have ADHD..
1. the cublicle neighbor always turns on some annoying squeaky music. (why do you think I come in an hour early? hmm??)
2. people start asking me 20 questions about my weekend, while I am about to fall off my chair. (its so tough to fall asleep when you know ya gotta go to work the next day)
3. the boss comes up and asks why you never remembered to do such and such and hour ago because you were informed of it on Friday afternoon. (I would be lucky to remember where I live much less to do a task after 2 days passed)
4. people say "good morning" and "how was your weekend" (not trying to be rude to them, but I am not a social being. See #2)
5. people coming up to you an asking if you feel well, or ask why you have a glazed over look on your face (see # 1-4)
6. hungry, you grab a bag of doritos out of the snack machine because you can never remember to pack a breakfast/lunch for work - only for co-workers to start picking at how unhealthy you eat. (unless you start hearing a beeping sound when I back up, back off! grr)
7. seeing that flashing red light on your phone indicating new voice mail, only to find everyone in the office was too lazy to return calls made over the weekend and transferred all their messages to you. (am I really believing what I am seeing?)
8. cubicle neighbors on the other side of me start going over the weekend events with one another giggling and chittering like birds then mentioning of my name and more giggling. (oh here we go again)
9. the phone starts ringing off the hook because the office isn't open on weekends and they all want to complain about late notices they received on Saturday (and of course I have a deadline to make on a new project and have to stop every 5 minutes to pick up the phone)
10. the employees and customers all ask me to do something on the way to the time clock (because I just got in the door and haven't even had enough time to clock in just yet!)
Reizende38551.254837963LOL Addlad!
Yup - I've had crappy min. wage jobs and it's hard to see the sunny side while there. Thankfully it made me look beyond it and go back to school.
DON'T SETTLE! Even the most average person can do better than a minimum wage job. While having ADHD we can sometimes feel like that's the only one that will have us - but don't be fooled!
While you are there - give yourself a Mantra - a chant. I used to while on crappy jobs. Say it to yourself (silently in your head if you don't want to be seen as a nutter) and say it over and over til you do it.
"I will go to school and get a better job"
"I will go to school and get a better job"
It works! I got out of my last no-future job when I was 17. I got myself any job where the pay was good- if I had to lie to them and say I'd done it I did. I tried snow removal, janitorial work, forest fire fighting, tutoring, you name it! I never could KEEP the job but I could weasel my way in the door! Use your ADD powers of persuasion and thinking on your feet. Find a way in to a better job - or by all means go to school!!!!!
Don't settle - that's the bottom line here.
Good luck to ya!
Reizende - If I had a cubicle job it would drive me crazy, too.
I just got my first job at Toys R Us (part-time). Things are going good so far - I come in at 7am, unload things from boxes (yay! physical activity!) then put them on the shelves and check prices and stuff. Then I only have to deal with customers for an hour until I go home at 11.
It's not bad at all. Then again, it could be the Ritalin that makes organizing things super-easy.
Oh yes, and a 10% employee discount on toys. TOYS! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
(I don't grow up - I just get bigger)
It's not bad at all. Then again, it could be the Ritalin that makes organizing things super-easy.
Oh yes, and a 10% employee discount on toys. TOYS! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! (I don't grow up - I just get bigger)[/QUOTE]
I worked at
Toys-R-Us two Christmases in a row, doing the night shift full-time. I
was doing the same thing - unpacking boxes and putting stock on the
shelves. It was great - physical work, no customers, no manager
standing over your shoulder. Unfortunately the night shift was only on
from Oct. to Christmas Eve. If I had wanted to keep working there, I
would have dropped to 10 hours a week, and would have started dealing
with customers. Plus, night shift does get to you after a while - when
you sleep away your days, you almost feel like you are sleeping away
your entire life.
a better idea for all,
work towards finding a job that you will actually like and you do yourself. for me that is writting music. so for the next 5 years i'll prob still be bsing the day away, but soon i will be writing/performing techno/trance fulltime.
I'd like to write books. Unfortunately, though I have lots of great little ideas, I can't seem to fuse them together into a sensable plot. Even my old grade school teachers thought I had wonderful ideas in creative writing projects, however they often complained that my stories went off on too many tangents non-related to the core plot. Hmmm. I wonder why that happened.bcgirl - I always did that too! I've tried to write a book a few times before, but then I'd get sick of writing about the same thing start another story that wasn't really related and I'd keep thinking "how am I going to fit those together?". I always end up with little clips of stories that are one or two pages, yet no patience to work an entire story around any of those ideas.
Once in 6th grade I started writing a story about being distracted from doing my homework when I was supposed to be doing my homework. So writing the story about being distracted was actually distracting me from doing my homework. Ironic, huh?
Oh, I just got an great idea! Maybe you could write a book where each chapter would be a little piece of a story or, but none of the chapters would have to be related at all, it would just be full of creative little stories that never finish themselves. No sensible plot required! It would be an ADHD dream.
OMG breed. That's awful...been there, been there, been there.I HATE WORK...MORE SPECIFICALLY...MY JOB.
THINK "OFFICE SPACE" TIMES A THOUSAND...
I'm lucky i've got the job I have, i'm the only mechanic who can go to any machine and have a clue as to whats wrong with it. Working third shift, I have the office to myself(but they have a clue, the computer is off limits to me).
I just don't see how I can relate thousands of machine operations for a manufacturing plant , and not undersand how to balance a checkbook
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daniel