Feeling like Sheldon when you’re not Sheldon.
Nothing I do works consistently, so who cares?
Seriously if I could disappear without hurting anyone or causing rippling traumas, I would in a heartbeat.
Until then, I will at least try to enjoy the beginning of my doomed projects.
Exactly. There is no reason why you shouldn’t have your fun. If it’s concentrated there, at the beginning of projects, then so be it
Oh boy, I wish I could tell you a story about this without doxxing myself. Holy fuck does it hit hard.
Mr President?
Lmao
I don’t remember how I got here
What if you swap the locality name for “Metropolis”, and yours for “Lex Luthor”?
Let’s just say I was morphing into something in my career, then was made a ridiculous offer for more money doing something I wasn’t fully qualified to do with the promise that there would be plenty of time to ramp up and develop. I took it, the timeline constricted, I got laid off (might as well have been fired), and it derailed my career from the trajectory I was on. Then the entire tech sector went into downturn, everyone’s doing RTO, every job has 487261884 applicants, and I’m about ready to cash in my chips.
I don’t understand the part with chips at the end. Why was the offer ridiculous ? do you mean the compensation was ridiculously higher than your usual ? I kinda did that recently, and am still hard at work to finish the thing in question,… so I can relate, I think.
Yeah, compensation was too high to turn down. I was happy where I was and going in the right direction.
I see. This is something to ruminate, thanks for sharing.
That’s how I got to senior tech lead on my team (software engineer)
That’s been my entire career in computing. I was a director at a small company until it got bought out because they kept promoting me for jumping in with both feet and figuring shit out.
While I secretly(?) agree. Don’t give up on big ideas. I do think a lot of big ideas that grew to actual big projects, exactly happened like that. When there’s enough approval and a lot people are joining (so that motivation isn’t lost as quickly again).
True. That’s how I installed Lineage on my old Pixel and set up my home server. I just know I have a limited amount of time before I lose interest, so everything has to be mastered and running smoothly before the clock runs out.
It always works somehow when I start a new job. That’s the way of life. Enjoy it. 😎
Sounding real close to conservative logic but yea you do you…
It does sometimes
- I had absolutely no concept of an idea that was associated with ADHD.
- If you are determined and stick to it, with a bit of understanding and luck you can likely figure out most situations if you have an experienced person training you, and you can become oddly good at a large number of absurd and unrelated fields.
- ADHD might actually just be a super hero origin story for those that take it far enough.
Wait…everyone doesn’t do that?
some people wake up every day with the privilege of being vastly more functional than us.
Before I was diagnosed, this was legit how I thought. I got lucky, it usually worked
But then, eventually, years later, you do finish it
That post a while back where someone said they took their kitchen apart 2 years ago and now they just live with it like that was something I felt deep in my soul.
I… i think i just realized both my uncles have ADHD… Both their houses have been under kitchen renovation… for 15+ years… How did i never realize adhd runs in my family and i’m not somehow the only one…
Yep, it’s familial in a big way. Now you can choose to tell them, or not!
epiphany moment ? it sounds obvious now doesn’t it ?
why do i always do this to myself
Cause it’s fun! I never feel such a rush of excitement when doing stuff I already know or am able to do wih ease. This has to be how adrenaline junkies feel like.
Oh you can get the barely-doing-things high with easy and simple things too! You just have to wait until there’s almost too little time to do them.
AND whilst fully aware about the success ratio of past similar endeavours along with a statistically significant outcome prediction for this one.
