Hey I have a question..

I work for my dad, he doesn't know about my ADD...well he might since I tryed to tell him since I was 5-7 year old...but maybe he just thinks i'm a daydreamer and a lazy ***...I can't help it that I get bored easy!!!!

My job is a desk job which I HATE HATE HATE...but its a 35 hour week pays umm..okay...I can take my daughter here if need be or leave early to get her to the doctors ... blah blah....

besides the fact that i'm so bored at work and I can seem to keep up with the paper work projects my sister pushes me to do things I really have no power to do.... she doesn't know about my ADD...

:eyebrow: I'm always taking "breaks" from my job (like now) cause I can't keep looking at the stupid white papers and the words on the screen

:confused: I'm always so tired not just cause I'm bored but cause of my lack of sleep, I don't sleep cause of my ADD and I also have an ED...so I'm jacked up on rock-stars or low and wants to fall over in my chair

:rolleyes: I really do my best to be a good worker...I love working..I would go crazy not working...I just don't feel motivated enough here...like I can't get anywhere...my sister is in sales and my dad wants me to get there "someday" but I'm not big on talking with people...I could sell a toy to a kid in a heart beat but speaking with an adult about business would freak me out :faint:


I'm going to take EMT classes this fall...I'm hoping that will keep me busy enough...something in the medical field has got to work...

I'm also a CNA but I can't handle the crap...I don't mind blood and bones but not a lot of crap!!

I've already had 18-20 jobs since I was 15 years old and I'm only 24 years old.....

I don't want to let my dad down but I also know that I need to tell him what is going on with me....I need to find a real doctor (mine is a jack*****) I'm on state aid and can't find a good one. blah.....

I really want to help this company but I feel like its just to little for me...and I HATE just sitting...I need to be outside or rushing ... yeah i know breaks are good but I'm sick of NO excitment at all..

is there any hope for me?? :confused:

Well, last question first: There's definitely hope for you. It may be in your present situation with your dad, or it may be somewhere else, but you shouldn't lose hope. What you're going through isn't unique; a lot of us are struggling with being square pegs trying to fit in round holes. That doesn't mean you're unable to do any job, just that the one you're in right now may not be a good fit.

When you say,

[H]e doesn't know about my ADD...well he might since I tryed to tell him since I was 5-7 year old...but maybe he just thinks i'm a daydreamer and a lazy ***...I can't help it that I get bored easy!!!!
do you mean that you've tried to tell him and he rejects the existence of ADD? If that's the case, there's a great deal of scientific evidence (http://www.addforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16812) available to possibly convince him. In the end if he wants to reject the evidence that's his loss, but you shouldn't make that decision for him ahead of time by not bringing it up.

Now, I understand that there are reasons to disclose ADD to one's boss and reasons not to disclose. Nevertheless, my thought is, if you can't talk to your father about your needs, what boss can you talk to? But I also recognize that families have different communication barriers and it sounds like there may be some. I would tend to err on the side of talking to him about your ADD (especially if he hasn't already rejected it out-of-hand) and your needs in the workplace -- but if you can't talk to him about this, it's probably time to look for another job.

I could sell a toy to a kid in a heart beat but speaking with an adult about business would freak me out :faint:
Have you considered careers where you'd be working with kids? Elementary education is the obvious one that jumps to mind, but there are others such as day care, social work, etc.

Thanks for the reply!!

Yes I've thought a lot about working at a daycare..I'd love to have my own someday...but that will be a dream I'll save for later on...

I guess I have to just keep believing that I can have that "dream job" sometimes I get so caught up in the negitive it's hard to fight for the positives... Does that make sense?

But yeah...I'd like to take the classes to get into the daycare field someday!! :)