I took a year off from work and really wanted to get disability but the odds weren't good so I finally made the courageous step of getting back into the working world.

At first it was great. My new med, Provigil, helps tremendously as far as having the motivation to get up and go to work and to not procrastinate as much. HOWEVER, the current position I'm holding is not (as I feared) compatible with my ADD. It's an accounting job where it's critical not to make tons of careless mistakes and yet I continue to do this.

My boss loves me because I'm very pleasant, courteous, and appear to be conscientious and hard working. And they just offered me the job permanently but this past week I had a horrendous week and I was making careless mistakes left and right. I look over my work and yet I still don't catch things. I'm wondering if maybe I shouldn't have accepted the job and if I should tell my temp agency that I'd rather work somewhere else. Because I'm afraid I'm setting myself up for getting fired. It just seems that too much attentinon to detail is required and my ADD just is getting in the way.

Any ideas for ways to help myself not make so many careless errors?

Checklists are the only thing I can suggest.

if you find that most of your errors occur in the same place put together a checklist for those problem areas.

check lists and just plain lists are critical to keep things on an even level. If what you have to do is done in steps, then mabe you should write each step down and reveiw it each time you do that type of job. and make sure you slow down. that is my biggest problem, i go way to fast on things. Sometimes I dont even know how fast I am going. and lastly double and even triple check work. that way you are looking at it again and again and mabe you will catch the mistakes before any one else. One of my biggest problems when i get a new job that I really like is that I have a hard time admitting to myself that I deserve to succeed. well try that. admit you are worth being happy and that you can enjoy this.

Thanks, guys. Lunaslobo, I'm like you. I go soooo fast and half the time I don't even know that I'm going fast. Everything I do in life I do fast and now that I know I have ADD (just diagnosed last year at age 32!) I understand why.

I've gone back to using checklists and saying the numbers as I type them in. And I'm trying to go really really slow but it's hard. It's like trying to pull back the reins on a racehorse that wants to go fast. The good news is my boss really likes me and she knows that I'm conscientious and want to do a good job.

I've gone back to using checklists and saying the numbers as I type them in.Have you done any number keypad training. It really helps accuracy and increases speed.

The good news is my boss really likes me and she knows that I'm conscientious and want to do a good job.Sounds like a keeper to me.