Hi,

I started a new drafting job two weeks ago. It's only for 4 hours a day. The work is very simple and well below my skill level. And I am bored to tears. If I could just get past the boredom issue it could be a really sweet deal. My boss gives me a bunch of prints to draw and then I don't hear from him until I'm done and need some more work. I have a nice sized cubicle and can listen to music if I want. Right now I take 50mg of Ritalin before I leave for work but I'm not sure it's making any difference. I was taking 30mg and when I went to 50mg it seemed to help. I'm wondering what doses of Ritalin other people are taking. I'd really hate that my ADD could screw up a good thing.

Thanks

EBJ

What does your doctor recommend?

Why don't you keep yourself from being bored. Come up with a new idea and show it to your boss. Ask for extra work. See if anyone around you needs your help. you're responsibile for keeping yourself not bored...you can do it!!!!!!!

Thanks for the encouragement Johna. It means a lot. I have enough work; it is that it’s just so easy. I feel like I have this spoiled brat inside me that demands that any and all work to be fun and changeling. I call him “the little brat”. It’s only 4 hours a day. I really, really hate ADD. I’m not in a position to come up with new ideas. Cad drafting is pretty straightforward. People give me a hand drawn sketch and I turn it into a Cad Drawing. I took a part time job with the hope that I could cope for just 4 hours. I am trying to come up with new ideas to cope. So far listening to music is one. Maybe books on CD… I don’t know. I don’t want to leave this job because I feel I can’t cope. Actually, I would like to stay for a while. I read about adults with ADD needing work that is interesting and challenging. The problem (for me) is that I would have to go back to work full time. And that doesn’t guarantee that the work would be any more interesting. I would most likely be miserable for eight hours a day instead of four. A Cad Drafter is a Cad Drafter. This would be a great opportunity to learn a new coping skill. I’ll keep trying.

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Ernie

k gotta ask but are you on meds for add/adhd? What does a cad drafter pic look like when it's finished? If you have enough work to do how can you be bored?
Johna

Cad drawings can be a drawing of almost anything. Mechanical parts, sheet metal enclosures, maps, buildings and in my case simple floor plans of buildings and telecommunication sites. The sites and floor plans are really simple to draw. They are made up of circles and rectangles with some text in them. To take a quote from the Internet; "I am unable to give sustained attention to tasks that are important but are not entertaining or interesting". If a task at work is not entertaining or interesting I can't function after a while. I become extremely anxious and depressed. I spent all this weekend having anxiety about going back to work on Monday. That's the nature of my ADD. I liked being a Cad Drafter for a few years but it stopped being entertaining and interesting. It's been years since I experienced this problem. I was either a tool maker or a drafter over the years. I'm 54. 20 years as a tool maker. The work was diverse and interesting. Then I no longer found tool making fun or interesting and I became a Cad Drafter. I loved it. Then a few years ago I turned 50 and my dad died. I became depressed and lost interest in everything. I went into a mid-life crisis. It was recently that I was diagnosed with ADD. It made sense. I remember having problems in school as a child. Mind wandering, class clown, not living up to my potential. The problem now is that I have run out of "fun" jobs. I've done everything. I was a electronics test technition, a meat cutter, a press operator, a machinist. a tool maker and a cad drafter. I don't know what to do. I feel at the end of my rope. I need a job but I can't function. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>

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I know a perfect job for you :) teaching! Start slow by subing at a few schools. I am sure subing could become a fulltime job :) Good Luck

Teaching.... Hmmmm Interesting. Very Interesting I almost took a job as a cad drafter teacher at a vocational school a couple of years ago.

Funny, I have been wanting to take a CAD class so I could do some of floor plans that my company has been outsourcing. Not so much to save the money, but I thought it would be fun!

you can take earplugs in your ear, it will help you in attention. i have try it ,and it worded.
and you can work in a quiet place,and after a length of work ,you can walk around.
but i suggestion find a work (not need sit on chair facing computer all day) is a good choice.
i was a cad drawer too,i use acad2004, if my colleague have any question in cad ,they will ask me,because i was accomplished in cad,but now i abdicate.because i cant sit on chair facing computer all day.
hope it is help for you

ebjco,what about doing a part time class in college learning a new skill you'd like to do-and think about changing jobs?