Was any other millennial sold the idea of a “dream job?”
It’s supposed to be the job that you spend your whole adolescence preparing for. This is the job that dictates what you major in college, and even what extracurricular activities you take. For some people, it works, but for people with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) it may not be that simple.
Speaking from personal experience, life with ADHD is like a never-ending game of “find the dopamine.” Some things like Tik Tok, games, and fidget toys give us a very short burst of dopamine, and other things like jobs can give us dopamine over a longer period of time until the honeymoon period ends. Once that honeymoon period ends, in my experience, executive dysfunction starts kicking in more and more daily until every aspect of your job is horrible.
The first time that ever happened to me, I was devastated because I thought I was working my “dream job.” That wasn’t supposed to happen at your “dream job.” That’s when I found a new “dream job.” Surprise surprise, it happened again. After I learned that I had ADHD, I realized that the reason I struggled to maintain jobs for a long period of time was because of the lack of dopamine over time. It’s not that I was bad at my job, or that I hated what I did. My brain was just done and needed a shiny new toy (new job).
While that feeling hasn’t happened in a while and I’m happy to be where I am now, I have seen a lot of ADHD folk get a lot of flack because they job hopped a lot. While this may not be what other generations want to hear, there’s nothing wrong with that. In my opinion and experience, the ADHD brain was made for job hopping and in today’s economy, there is nothing shameful about that.
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