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[–] [email protected] 73 points 4 months ago

And no particular goal, like a dog with the zoomies.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 4 months ago (2 children)

ADHD is basically the only reason I'm able to work in the area I do, I have absolutely no formal training in it other than what I taught myself while procrastinating.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Is it tech

I bet it’s tech isn’t it

[–] [email protected] 55 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why did I even pretend I could get away without saying it -3-

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm lowkey jealous of neurodiverhent people who obsessed over tech. My fixation is emergency medicine. Now I'm a jaded and traumatized EMT who can barely pay rent lol

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

I used to be obsessed with tech. Believe me, there's plenty to be jaded and traumatized about, though obviously in a much different category than what you went through.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Actually, it's professional volleyball.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's cool. Volleyball is nice, just watched Japan vs Germany this morning

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

True, volleyball is good. As long as you're not cheering for the Dutch beach volley team 😬

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why are they controversial?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Because one of them is a convicted child rapist who only got one year in prison for raping a 12yo and the rest are defending him 🤬

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

If only... 🥲

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

If I stop being addicted to computers, I will lose my house.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm in a software development-ish role (slightly too specialised to say I actually develop software anymore)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I often envy people working in IT. It feels like the perfect field for ADHD people. For me it feels like it's too late to change over. (I'm in my early 30s.) So I think it's gonna be best to just try to be happy with my current job. After all, wanting something else than what you currently have is very ADHDish...

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Nah mate, you wouldn't believe how many early 30s and end 20s start their IT studies over here. If you like it and you're into it, you can still rock it. Think about how many years of work you have left and take 2-5 years off that it takes to switch ... I think its still worth it in the long run isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Think about how many years of work you have left

It's incredibly depressing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I started university when I was in my mid 30s and graduated as a chemical engineer, much better than working retail or something for another 20 years

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't know. I have a full time job and have to pay off a house for the next ~30 years. There's no room to follow other professions.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Trained an ex chef of 20 years who took bsc in CS in his early 40s. Gone on to start a great career in tech. It’s never too late fren

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can you tell more about it?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I mostly do security and server maintenance to support a team of developers. It's kinda a bore tbh, too much paperwork

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I’m old. Before internet, I would read the encyclopedia for fun, and spend hours in the library.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Growing up in the 80s, we somehow had an encyclopedia set from the 60s. You bet your ass I was reading random (possibly outdated) crap all the time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

We are still learning possibly outdated crap

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Atlas was my favorite book as a child

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I literally had to ban myself from TV Tropes for life.

Not gonna link it since I'm pretty sure that doing so in a community like this one counts as a war crime 😄

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh god, TVTropes is like fucking crack cocaine for my brain, I'm like a wet sponge after those endless rabbitholes. I have had the most difficult time explaining to others what it's about, but I'm quite content for it to be my own little getaway.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Hmm this sounds like reading about old wrestlers on the lives they led on Wikipedia for me. I've spent hours upon hours doing that, and I don't know why. I haven't watched wrasslin in 35 years.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Dude, even mentioning it violates some international convention. There goes the rest of my day.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

You come back from a wiki walk not knowing what month it is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

The only thing that saves me from that site is that some point in the past it became browser cancer. Not sure if it's gotten better but I don't intend on finding out.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago

*except what you initially set out to do and actually need to do.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (3 children)

This is why I'm such a good car nerd. Ive built dozens of high performance cars with tools, ive built THOUSANDS using google.

At the moment Im spreadsheet building a new drag car. Before I buy a single part I know if its going to go together the way I plan, what all the major parts are going to cost and what jobs Ill have to send out and what they will cost. The weights and measurements of most parts and what kind of end quarter mile results it will put me in the ballpark of.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't even care about cars but that's amazing.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

But, can you pivot a table?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I have a particular set of skills

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago

I have an approximate knowledge of many things.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Woah. Imagine your entire island explodes, causing the world to enter a volcanic winter.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

... And also have the ability to skim internet content really really fast for all relevant information i need somehow without actually reading any of it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

It's kind of crazy that so many people don't know how to skim a page.

I've met far too many people that have to read the entire page in order to find the one section they need. It's infuriating.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

I should memorise this reply.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I usually go with "ADHD + THC makes me a fuckin' X-Man of facts", and I'm leveraging that power toward a career focusing on it. ✊🏽

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

My trivia team has two weaponised autists. I'm one of them. I brought the second one in. We're only allowed to play together once a month. Loool

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

In the future, we will be known as history men. (Sorry, just watched furiosa not long ago)

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