I am a producer in a TV newsroom. I that may be the only gig where the deadline pressure is as bad or worse.

I read somewhere else on this site where ADD people tend to gravitate toward high-pressure jobs. Maybe there's some truth to that.

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I am a nurse. Organization skills have been difficult at first, but then I eventually learned how to be organized. It's really nice.

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DK said: Hello. Although I have a good job, I have constant report deadlines, which are killing me. I have a full support staff, and this helps, but I don't know how much longer I can bear the stress of the deadlines. It seems like it's time to make a career transition. I don't want to switch careers entirely; just find a new venue for my skills. I'm a clinical psychologist who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of childhood disorders. I have lots of different skills, but the ADHD means that I have a problem applying them consistently. If you have ADHD, then you know what I mean. Does anyone have any advice for me?

Thanks!

Have you thought about working as a consultant to child psych practicioners in your region, or perhaps about opening your own private practice, or perhaps a partnership with another practitioner? That way you could focus more upon your skills as a clinician and on interaction with clients and their families versus having to worry about deadlines as much, as you could delegate that part of the work to someone else. Also, I saw online a great prioritizing software package called Life Balance which seems promising. http://www.llamagraphics.com/LB/index.php

My ADHD makes it near impossible to adhere to deadlines without accommodation assistance. I have had luck getting out a calendar at the start of projects and working backwards from the date due, breaking the work down into manageable smaller tasks and rewarding myself for tasks completed. It also helps to have someone around to ask you how things are going so you don't get off track.

Hope this is helpful & good luck!

Dressy

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KazamaSmokers said: I read somewhere else on this site where ADD people tend to gravitate toward high-pressure jobs. Maybe there's some truth to that.

I also remember seeing that somewhere and from personal experience I have to agree. I know I always seem to perform better under pressure and it seems that the more free time I have the less I get done. My son is the same way. At the same time, if the pressure is constant and there is not at least a lull every now and again, I will get overwhelmed and have a melt down or mess something up.

The best job I ever had (from a deadline standpoint) was in passenger courtesy for a cruise line. There were deadlines to meet every week, but each day it was something different so I was able to change gears throughout the week. For example, on Monday I would work on group travel meeting room needs and things relating to the groups traveling. Tues. would be guest amenity orders and special medical or dietary requests, Wed. would be something else, and then it all got bundled up and sent to the ship on Thursday and the process started again. WOW, after writing about that I just realized that perhaps I can reorganize my current job to work somewhat the same way and that would help issues I am having there (it's meltdown time again!).

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I am a supervisor over a Police, Fire, 9-1-1 Dispatch Center. ADD is almost a requirement for this job in that it is an absolute must to be able to do four or more things at once. In fact, I told my doc that my meds completely mess me up when I have to cover in Dispatch because they make me want to do one thing at a time and it's just not possible in there so it became very frustrating on meds. On the other hand, in my supervisory role, where more organization is necessary, and I do not have to juggle many calls at once, the meds help. If it were legal, I would ask my applicants if they had ADD in interviews, then I would know that they can multi-task. LOL!

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Badger, I am struggling with my organizational skills and the tendency for things to fall through the cracks. I am currently in the process of an informal review, that is what happens when you fail internship. Yes, I failed internship last summer and am now in a review process which involves proving myself to my professors. I'm not about to change careers, because this is the career I have been striving for and I've spent a lot of money on school. But recently, I made a mistake that was very unprofessional. I failed to put an event on my calendar. I have been religious with my icalendar and the fact that this happened is a real let-down. I was again hijacked by my ADD when I thought it was 12:00 when it was actually 1:00. I can't let this ruin my future. How did you organize yourself?

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Hello Psychologist! From a Speech-Language Pathologist who works in a Public School System! I am an adult diagnosed with ADHD! A happy camper at that and been through the mill! Compensated my whole life and now I know..This is not an advertisement, a suggestion, a wonderful coach that is wonderful and I still use her and communicate with her, too! She gives teleconferences as well as personal coaching! Her website is www.Carriethru.com I believe I got her from one of these magazines...She taught me everything I know about organization and being on time. Most importantly is to become aware of your environment, yourself and HAVE A PURPOSE FOR WHAT YOU ARE DOING....HOW WILL IT BEST SERVE YOU! KISS...KEEP IT SIMPLE SWEETIE! If you are on time, how will it make you feel? If you are late, how will it make you feel? How important is it for you to have your work in on time? Will it serve a positive or negative purpose in your life...Make a list on how it will serve a purpose in your life...It might take alot of stress off of your shoulders if you sit back and look at what you are doing in your day as if you were an outsider looking in....and evaluate yourself...How would you do things differently and do them in smaller increments so you are not so overwhelmed! You are the only one that knows what your days and nights are like....There is a reason for waiting to the last minute and it is not a positive reason....and it is not to get a rush feeling either ....stop punishing yourself and relax and take the chaos out of your life one step at a time....Tell Carrie that Harriet sent you ...She is awesome ...She is from New Jersey and a fabulous coach....as you know ...a coach is not a psychologist...so try to separate yourself and don't treat yourself....just be you and not a psychologist in this matter....just you the person who needs to put order in your life so you could have peace and serenity....Good Luck and I would love to know what happens....Be well...Newroutines....

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Hi Speech Pathologist. I am also an SLP in a public school, for the moment. My contract is not being renewed. You have to tell me how you do it. Between my lack of organization, procrastination, inability to detect certain social cues and my lack of self-esteem, I have managed to lose more jobs than I care to count. I have a caseload of about 55 middle schoolers and I love them (and with many of them having LD, Autistism and ADD, I can certainly relate to them). Anyone at my school (a middle school) will tell you how caring, nurturing, supportive, knowledgeable, enthusiastic and fun loving I am, but it makes no difference! I initially worked in the corporate world and decided to do work that was more personally meaningful to me. Somehow I just can't seem to crack the code.

I think the best thing for me to do is to try to go with an established private practice with the ultimate goal of starting my own practice. I am really bad at self-promotion. Going through the whole "looking for a job" thing again is really wearing me down.

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Hey newrounties How is the Carrie person from NJ. I'm from jersey looking for all the help I can get because I was just told about ADD about a year ago and cannot find help. ps so ture about multitasking lol thanks for the idea

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My experience as someone with ADD and as an HR professional points towards the HOW we work as being more important than WHAT we do. Self employment can be a good option so you can control your work (and hide the uneven workflow!) as are short term projects where you do not have to sustain interest for too long. Temping and short term contract roles can be good (the higher rates make up for the down time). If you find people and over-stimulus to be a problem, try non-contact roles such as teaching, academia or writing. Please feel free to PM me if you have any comments, suggestions or questions - I am thinking about doing this for a PhD do would be really interested in your views.

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DK said: Hello. Although I have a good job, I have constant report deadlines, which are killing me. I have a full support staff, and this helps, but I don't know how much longer I can bear the stress of the deadlines. It seems like it's time to make a career transition. I don't want to switch careers entirely; just find a new venue for my skills. I'm a clinical psychologist who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of childhood disorders. I have lots of different skills, but the ADHD means that I have a problem applying them consistently. If you have ADHD, then you know what I mean. Does anyone have any advice for me?

Thanks!

Here is the site of his blog pointing to the article that describes how to implement.

http://davidorn.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!9B3B8FD397272614!313.entry

Part 1 - BASICS: Navigation, Key New Outlook Capabilities [this post] Part 2 - WORKFLOW: The GTD basic workflow, my adaptation in Outlook Part 3 - IMPLEMENTATION: How to configure all of this in Outlook 2007

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