I have Special Interests (pixel-perfect UIs, the overall ‘feel’ of software, old computers, obsolete media like floppies, useless machines, etc.) that my brain finds extremely stimulating and rewarding and I’m able to devote hours to creating things that scratch these itches. Unfortunately neither the job market, nor anyone else actually, sees beauty there where I see it and so they will not value it (that includes financially). Meanwhile, there are other things like machine learning or cell biology that my brain is also very well equipped for but I don’t spend time learning them because they don’t draw me to them the way my SIs do (I have ADHD so the stimulation level of activities is quite decisive). This is a handicap because it leaves me fixated on several irrelevant things which I did not choose. How do you guys deal with this?

  • addictedtochaos@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    I love mecedes ca<rs, and working on them, while listening to music or audiobooks.

    so it turns out i am incredibly good at selling used car parts, because i know everything about them, i am seller and mechanic in one person. also i make really good pics, and i clean my parts very good. and i am a data mining machine, i know what sells, where the money is. i know what people need.-

    i know the parts number system, which car has which parts, how they break and why, and which parts fit where and what have you.

    so thats my speciality.

    had to quit though, since i got very sick 3 years ago, well, it started 3 years ago. but if it werent for that, i would have kept doing it, it was sooooooo easy.

    so, look at the things you are good at. turn this into money.

    the fun thing is, i never tried that, because i newer saw it as work. i only started it when i started taking ritalin.