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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/adhd
 

Any ideas? I'm 21 so not too many bills to pay.
I just need something that will give me the financial freedom to move around and hopefully some time left over.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

solution sales, be it in IT, AV, Security, office equipment... Generally you work with different clients, in different parts of an industry or multiple industries. All have similar needs but various differences in applications that requires jumping into their work understanding why they need some things in special ways, and then jumping back out to move on to the next project.

Its lets you leverage your hyper-focus and quick study skills, but wont require you to master an particular thing. Its also often not a direct sales job, but a 1/2 tech 1/2 sales job where you support a traditional sales organization but are expected to be a technical jack of all things within your company/role/industry/product line.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This does sound quite good, especially seeing as I'm quite a techy person.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I've made a career out of my ADHD in a presales engineering role.. (And ending up in product management).

I did need to get the social aspects under control (mostly learning to slow down, and to learn when to shut up!), but this was all very manageable if you can take feedback and hyperfocus on putting it in action... 🤪

I liked that I got to work on the 20% of the customers problem that was the "rocket science" bit, and we would sell consulting services to do the bits that were more like "making license plates"...

Also, having a new audience every week meant I got to really practice and hone my presentation and soft skills which are super important.

[–] hedgehogging_the_bed 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Use Coursera to take a Certification in an area that interests you like IT or bookkeeping. I found it dead easy and the courses were broken down into really small units that I could finish a few a day.

[–] meco03211 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Did you use those certifications to land a job?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I got my job as a entry-level tech based on Linux ability and I'm currently Junior sis admin with no certs. I still don't have certs. Just know how to Google and troubleshoot really good.

[–] meco03211 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So you used knowledge gained but not the actual certs themselves?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not really. I probably learned more from having a red hat based server and playing a game that emulates a Unix terminal environent than I learned from studying for comp Tia before I gave that up

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What game was it? That sounds like it could be interesting.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank you! I'm going to look into it. Also, for what it's worth, I didn't realize I was responding to a month old post until after the fact. So thank you for responding even though I probably seemed like some bot trying to build history. I assure you I am not, and I am writing this on my real phone using my human fingers, while breathing oxygen, since I am a biological creature, fellow human. Beep boop. 🤖

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The internet has been dead for a while but Lemmy is mostly free of zombies

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Unemployed (unemployable?) linux nerd here, I can get a job for this? What sort of listings did you apply for?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Help desk for web hosting companies I settled on one that wasn't corporate medium, large size.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Coursera? Small units? This sounds useful (but for ADHD learning, not for jobs), I'll look into this. How widely are the Coursera certificates accepted?

[–] norimee 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you are a native english speaker and have any kind of degree you could look for TEFL jobs online.
When I lived and traveled in SEA for some years I knew quite a few british and americans who taught english online on the road.

A TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) certificate can help, but when you are native and finished school, that would often be enough.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hmm, interesting idea. Do you know roughly how much of their day it took up?

[–] norimee 1 points 4 months ago

That depends on how much you want to earn. People I knew didn't work much, maybe a couple hours a day, but also lived in a place with $150 rent/month and $1 meals.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I quite liked the idea of doing translation, as it uses the creative part of my brain which successfully gets me into flow, but unfortunately they are very picky and translation as a career is quickly dying out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, plus now that we are using AI for translations and it's halfway decent there is even less room in that industry.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It is pretty good learn Linux or Windows ad