How do you manage to learn a detail-oriented job that you have no interest in? Sure, we all have bills to pay and other responsibilities that make a paycheck a necessity. But my brain does not seem to appreciate the gravity of this stark reality. It does not "power up" when trying to learn things I have no interest in. (Inattentive Type, btw).

I'll learn the info today, only to forget a few weeks later. This causes numerous embarrassing blunders and flub-ups. It makes one appear and FEEL utterly incompetent. Notes don't seem to help either, if you misplace the notebook.

However, when I'm learning something I have at least some interest in, I do fine. I've only been at my current job a little over a year but feel ready to move on to a company that does something I *care* about. If I stay and continue to perform at an unsatisfactory level, it will work against me in the long run.

How do you manage to learn a detailed job that you have absolutely no interest in? I am MISERABLE.

What is your job? What are things that you're interested in?

Maybe you can find a way to MAKE your job interesting enough so that you're not so miserable all the time. People with ADD are able to link two (or hundreds!) of totally and completely different things together indirectly. In some situations, this is a good attribute. Make this situation one of them.

Good luck!

I know the feeling, and I especially know this feeling:Notes don't seem to help either, if you misplace the notebook.On that specific topic all I can advise is persistence; if you misplace the first 10 notebooks, try to keep track of #11. Of course all the obvious suggestions about putting it in one place apply, but that rarely seems to work for me. So I have to force myself to keep at it, because I know how confused my life is when I don't write stuff down. Even though my memory saves me 90% of the time, it's the 10% that's a killer.

As for the bigger question -- Mystic's suggestion about linkage sounds like it has a lot of merit. Is there way to invent a sort of game or self-assessment to make it a more interesting challenge? Probably not -- when subject matter is boring, it's hard to find any way to make it not-boring. I feel your pain.

I can relate to this, I had to be in charge of a loom with -well it might as well have been 10,000 threads coming out of 10,000 spools, stretched, connected-Oh I could have gone crazy, of course you want to be able to say, "sure I can do that" but you know you would never be able to and keep your head on straight, I tend to bite off more than I can chew, but what I learned from this, is try to consider the task before you say yes.-or learn to delegate. my 2 cents.L.

I have no interest in any job in the world, you learn coping ways to make boring things into interesting things, using your creative mind just to make boring work look better..also for me personally, I have to smoke weed to work on boring stuff, but the effects I get is much different than others. Good luck.

T-Bass

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it.
Theodore Roosevelt

QUIT! LOL I am in the same situation. I have been at my job for over 5 years. I am now going to school so I can get a job I actually enjoy doing.

Have you thought about doing the same? Maybe if you did some training on the side for a different career you might be more motivated to stick it out - knowing that you will eventually be able to leave.

i told my boss about my bipolar, add and ocd 2 days ago, she asked me how they could accomadate me, i told her, and nothing has changed, i got a frustrating call yesterday for a simple order, i had an anxiety issue while talking to the customer and hung up. i told the manager what he wanted and she has offered to help me today with it, anyway i asked about being taken off of phone duty as an accomadation and was told; "cant do it". so i came home frustrated and am going in this mornning to see what happens, thanks for listening, later. :soapbox: i am seriously ready to quit and move to texas.

I work from home and we have training while sitting in front of the computer watching someone else do things with a phone to our ear. I'm gonna learn something...yea right.


I just make sure I put the information where I can find it later and I always always know who knows what so if I have a question I can ask.

Most of the time I just say "brain fart..what do you do with this?"

Works all of the time.

And if I DONT get something I make sure i ask for help. I set aside some time when I'm not in a brain fog and truly try to focus on what they're saying. I have to say it in my own words and write my own notes most times..but eventually I get it.