ADD/ADHD Professions For You

By Rene A Lacape

There are still more careers areas for you to explore if you have ADD or ADHD. If you haven't seen anything to your liking yet, consider these other categories.

Management: Although management is not considered suitable career option for people suffering from ADD/ADHD their excellent performances always keep them in the limelight. The matter of the fact is that such jobs are not ADD-friendly. Still some ADDers perform them efficiently by uniting their colleagues and get all admiration. Managerial position requires keen attention, organizational skill and focused approach. It is a bit tough for those suffering from ADD/ADHD. But you can achieve them through strong will power.

Nursing: Choosing nursing career is challenging as well as satisfactory experience for you in which you may have to face extremely dull and unavoidable circumstances. But this career also makes you a staunch disciplinarian.

IMedical: Another exciting career like nursing is medicine which expands with its diverse applications. ADD sufferers get opportunity to serve humanity through this challenging profession. You must dedicate yourself in your chosen area either it is gynecological or surgical. This profession brings excitement in your life and you are satisfied. It provides ample opportunities and independency.

Attorney: The unique profession of attorney has its own complications as it requires you follow minute observations and in-depth study though difficult but not impossible. Mostly paralegal attorneys are instructed to deepen the theoretical study of the matter they deal with. But after all being a trial attorney even helps you become an independent thinker, self-starter and a multifarious person.

Insurance: I can almost hear you yawning as you read this. If the notion of working in this field intrigues you, think about a job as a sales representative for insurance or a claims adjuster. These jobs require much less monotonous work, enable you to be sociable, and offer variety as well as autonomy.

Computer: Give creativity an opportunity. We know simple data work is boring. Working regularly on computer at one place may make you idle. I focus on something innovative. Apply creativity and best programmes if you really like to work on computers. You can explore new ideas by adjusting various computer parts and settling them perfectly. It is a best creative job you would love to perform.

Recreation: Are you particularly physically talented? Are you athletic or do you enjoy teaching others about health? Maybe you should consider a job as a coach, dance instructor, or a fitness trainer. The health field continues to be one of the more recession-proof areas so it might be right down your alley!

Consultant: Choose a career which brings challenge and demands commitment from your side. Consulting leads to entrepreneurship. Usually consultants are told to sort out the problems with an effective solution. You are trusted and paid for applying intelligence, and your ideas are implemented by others for having result-oriented output. You have freedom, autonomy, choice and opportunity to apply simulation in this specific area.

Creative: ADD sufferers can't be surpassed due to this disorder. They have done tremendous contribution in creative fields through their imaginative approach. They perform wonderfully in dance, writing and et al. Have systematic goal to make things smoother. Artists are independent thinkers and trained in generalizing ideas. You should be systematic in your creative work so that whatever you create becomes a masterpiece. There are many career options in it to choose from teaching art, working in an advertising office, starting creative ventures or writing in public relations firms.

Numerous options for the attention deficit disorder or ADHD-friendly jobs are here. Don't make this list final and look for hundreds of other options. Most important aspect while you choose a job is self preparation. Introspect and know your strengths as well as weaknesses particularly when you suffer from ADD/ADHD. Make sure that you have made up your mind to attend an interview after considering such aspects carefully. The possibility is that you choose a job which doesn't suit your specific ADD criteria, but you can still prefer them which satisfies your urge.

Professional leaps should not be sportingly. In case you are still not in a position to make out best options, take assistance from a career specialist or vocational psychologist. These professionals are well-trained and help you search good career choices after thoroughly studying your abilities. Ensure that you don't forget to mention your ADD/ADHD disorder and detail everything related to you so that they find out feasible options for your career. - 30309

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