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> First, use ADHD to your advantage.

Agree with this 100%. While I've never been formally diagnosed (and have no intention to be), I definitely have some tendencies that align with people who have been formally diagnosed with ADHD. The way I see it, this is a part of me anyways, so I might as well lean into it and milk it for all it's worth, which has led to me being in a similar "jack-of-all-trades" position. If anything, I view it as a tremendous advantage being able to dive into new projects/topics, learn what's interesting about them, then move onto the next shiny thing that catches my eye. With each new thing I get into, I'm able to pull from a vast trove of knowledge spanning many different subjects, which lets me think about old problems in new ways.

Even so, I can see something like ADHD being an issue for people who aren't necessarily driven to succeed beyond a baseline, and are just interested in having a more structured life.

[seba_dos1]

> then move onto the next shiny thing that catches my eye.

This works as long as that next shiny thing is something that brings value/money or is at least compatible with your career goals. That's often the case in our field of work, but it's not a given.

I'm also a "jack of all trades" and it usually works out great for me, but I'm pretty sure that I was one non-lenient enough manager away from getting fired several times in my life. This wouldn't work so well if I wasn't working in a field that observes workers economy.

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> This works as long as that next shiny thing is something that brings value/money

Yep, I know that all too well. Took about 4-5 years after high school (and dropping out of several colleges) before I found some sort of traction in my life, otherwise I was just swinging and missing, so to speak, over and over learning new things that often didn't materialize in any substantial progress. Then the shiny new thing was starting a business, which failed, I became homeless for a few months, worked food delivery to get back on my feet, then the shiny new thing for ~1-2 months was marketing, which as it turns out I really needed, now I'm working for a good company.

Another component to all this is probably that I'm just used to the ups and downs at this point and have learned to compensate for them reasonably well enough.

[hnhamdani2]

Interesting, do you do one gig at a time or multiple gigs in parallel?

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At the moment I work full time as a Software Developer. At this point last year I was doing food delivery using DoorDash and Uber Eats for 12-14 hours per day, which has a sort of "GO GO GO" kind of feel to it. I'm fine with either, but it has to consistently be one of the other, which I feel is a pretty common trait with regards to people's ability to switch contexts.