I would like to survey. What jobs do ADHDers find fulfilling?

[Toby60714]

Trying to find job with that perfect fit,so i was hoping to get insight on what other people have found to be fulfilling work.

[Daen]

Best thing I ever did was being involved with statutory sector processes; especially those that played to my ADHD talents - like being aware of what goes on elsewhere and how it can be used. I was once called the best lateral thinker a very senior person had ever met. The processes I did best in were service/role redesign or reconfiguration and commissioning - all stages.

[Toby60714 in reply to Daen]

" service/role redesign or reconfiguration and commissioning"... so this was an Human Resources function then?

[Daen in reply to Toby60714]

Only some and in part; service redesign involves thinking about what skills are needed to deliver the intended service, who has them and who can get them. Some things are limited to certain professions by law though. An example in health might be crisis services in a rural county; if the qualified nurses are able to write or amend prescriptions if there's a problem or error then it can be sorted there and then instead of a 20 minute discharge taking well over 3 hours...

Commissioning is the process by which public services are funded - how much of the available money is given for something. ADHD can help with this, as things like the street design for a new centre, how people get there and back as well as the more usual thoughts about staff skills and numbers plus who should be able to access the new service get thought about.

So for local health services, they need to know who has what condition, how many of them are in the area, how badly people are affected (needs assessment), what works to treat it, who delivers the care, how many of each kind of staff are needed, how long it takes. The difficulty comes with balancing numbers of people against cost of treatment compared with how much they cost if nothing is done.

Think of 2 triangles; the first is the normal way up and most of it is the majority of people. About 3/4 of the way up are fewer people. but they need more specialist help, and lastly the final 5% or so are people with serious problems. How the money gets spent is the exact opposite; it's the fewest who cost the most.

The last part of commissioning is making sure the intended outcomes have been delivered; all these stages seemed to play to what I'm good at - knowing a bit about lots of different things and what the core competences shown were to change practice. The classic example is the hospital that went to Formula 1 to improve how an operating department worked.

[LoveDogs71 in reply to Daen]

Your job statutory sector processes. Is that like being an auditor? Does it involve a lot of paperwork in that line of work?