Published on 12, July, 2020
Hi!
I am currently waiting for an autism and ADHD diagnosis but it’s looking very likely that I have both conditions.
I am struggling with employment and wondered if anyone could give any advice. I always did well at school, have a maths degree and ended up in the career that I had always dreamed of. Unfortunately, the career that I thought would be fairly numbers based is very heavy on written work, specifically explanations. I have always struggled with explaining things, so unfortunately am really struggling at work, which hasn’t gone unnoticed by my team. People I work with are often frustrated as I don’t pull my weight, despite me putting in a lot of effort. The writing and explanations just isn’t clicking with me.
I am at a complete loss as I always wanted to be in this career but it obviously isn’t suited to me. I feel like I would be better suited to a problem solving/analytical (non-writing) role, but just have no idea what is out there and am very scared of choosing the wrong career again.
I had a similar role at a different company but found that far easier since the work had a template format, making it far easier to know what I needed to write about.
Has anyone been through something similar? Or do you know of possible career paths forwards? What do you do for work?
id guess if your good at maths then being a accountant of some sort would be ok... but then that sounds complicated to me, like filling out tax reports and so on which is very complicated, although if its all maths and your good t that then it should be easy for you.
im no good at maths myself so im not sure what role youd be good at.... im good at long winded writing so id probs be good at whatever job you have if i didnt get bored of it lol
Unfortunately I don’t fancy retraining for 3-4 years, although I do think it could be a good fit!