What to do if you're 40 and you've realised you can't stand office work at all because you have #ADHD, but the only job experience you have is 13 years of being a software engineer?
Add to that the constraint that you can't go to school to re-educate yourself because school is just office work you don't get paid for?
What kind of job can you even get in that situation? I've been thinking about that for 4 years now and I don't have any good answers. 🤷♂️
EDIT: I did not respond well to medical ADHD treatment. Bad side effects. Many people get those, but it's not talked about much.
So every 3 months I redo my resume. I've been doing it for close to 15 years (I have copies of my resumes from high school).
And, well...
I just realized my resume hadn't landed me a single job.
Ever.
Papa John's? Paper form. Working for politicians? Referral. Non-profits? Referral. Current gig? I was recruited!
Do... do resumes work? Like, I've been giving advice to folks on careers (once in a while), but, well, do resumes actually get folks jobs? #Careers#Resumes
"I want to die on stage" is the romantic thought of every musician until they realize that most of what they can tentatively call a career will be spent in clubs that don't have stages, let alone stages big enough to hold the corpse of a grown man.
As someone else's experience has just reminded me, becoming a manager isn't a promotion; it's a job change.
It's a broken workplace that forces a talented engineer (or aid worker, or writer, or whatever) to become a mediocre manager just to keep their career from stalling.
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