“My lack of follow-through had always bothered me. I felt like it was a moral failing. I didn’t know that ADHD was the reason I got bored so quickly.”
helped, of course. So did her ADHD-friendly study strategies. And Katherine was savvy enough to recognize that she’d do better in a job that was more — rather than less — demanding. She initially considered paralegal work but doubts that she would have been able to keep all the paperwork organized. Being a lawyer suits her, she says, because “it’s more big-picture than details. Law fits into the way I think, on five levels at the same time. I created the program and a job for myself.
device, which reads aloud legal briefs — as well as with the help of colleagues, who proofread her briefs. That’s putting it mildly: Before becoming self-employed, Daniel tried 34 different jobs, including salesman, administrator, janitor, press helper, and landscaper. What made him keep switching jobs? Boredom, mostly. “I got the feedback in my old jobs that I was good at starting things but not at finishing projects,” he says. “Being a self-employed grant writer is a way around that, because there are defined projects with a defined life to them.”, by , and John Ratey, M.D.
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