| Find a job that is on the intersection of what you know and what will fit you. I am 35 and have been diagnosed with ADHD ~year ago. Meds did help, like by 50% with my ability to start and complete things. On the other hand, country I live in is somewhat stingy on psychopharmatics, so I am glad I have at least the meds I have. Meds don't help with memory, unfortunately, you will need to keep your system you have cobbled together over years. The meds actually do help with the rejection sensitivity more than I anticipated. But this seems like the thing you will actually need to work on to compensate for. It can be hard, things that will work for you will be counter-intuitive, but becoming some sort of "trustworthy professional that is nice to work with" is doable and worth price in gold. One of the epiphanies that led me there was ... people don't actually need perfection, they mostly need to be able to rely on what you told them. Work with them, pairing helps me there. I work in QE for a big corp - specifically RedHat. I now know I shouldn't look for jobs that sound interesting but would require me to self-manage. I need other people to keep me on track and reasonably well defined goals. But I also need novelty and exploration. So QE works. I would assume SRE would work as well, and possibly a technical enough support role. Working in a big-enough corp to allow for latteral moves is helping plenty too. |