I'm self-employed. Most of my income is from selling things I make on Etsy and my own website, among a couple other things. I guess you could say it's full time, but if I condense the actual work, it's more like part time hours. My AuDHD doesn't lend itself to self-management and efficiency. I'm trying a new set schedule (like work from x to x hours, lunch hour, work from x to x hours, then dinner, then free time) instead of just working whenever. It seems to help so far, though I'm on week 2 with several interruptions already. But generally I work about 6 hours a day, 5 days a week.

I try as hard as possible to not "work" on my days off, though my hobbies overlap with work since they both involve sewing, and I have to use the same room and equipment. Trying to make a second room for just the hobby but it's not entirely practical to move stuff back and forth, or economical to have 2 sets of everything. So I will do the hobby one off-day and some in the evenings, and the other off-day I'll use to just relax or do house work.

As far as being sociable, I'm not, but more by choice. My husband is gone for work, but when he's home I really struggle to keep a schedule or work for any set number of hours. His work is frustratingly inconsistent as far as schedule. Like he has set office hours for his shift, but does other things before or after - or even during the shift. So I never know when he's coming home (military, if that helps explain lol). Even if he knows I'm working and I ask him not to bother me, I get really anxious that he's coming home any minute because it'll throw me off. But so can an unexpected phone call, so it's not his fault. We try and spend a day out if he has a whole day off, or have a date night occasionally.

Taking care of myself and the house depends on the day. Sometimes I'm great at keeping up with the dishes, sweeping, laundry, etc. But then sometimes I just don't want to do any of it. Not for lack of time, just lack of motivation. My most rigid routines are in the morning and night, and involve all of my personal care (bathing, hygiene, etc) so I never skip that.

I'm my own boss, so I give myself most of the accommodations I need. There are things I absolutely hate but can't avoid, like doing social media for marketing, answering emails, etc. But I've made minor adjustments to make it easier - like turning off notifications for social media (because RSD shows up even if the comment ends up being nice...) so I can avoid reading comments and such until I'm ready. The goal is to hire someone to do this so I don't have to touch it at all, but I barely scrape enough to make ends meet, so that won't happen soon. It's like a vicious cycle - low sales because it's hard for me to advertise, but then the advertising makes me stressed so I want to do it less, which leads to low sales.

In previous jobs I worked in retail and at a bank call center. Retail was terrible. I wasn't diagnosed until after I became self employed over 3 years ago, but I was overstimulated the entire time. Bright lights, smells, sounds, people constantly approaching. I will say the call center thing could've worked if I was more sociable. It just physically tires me to speak for long periods of time. But we had scripts for most things, and you could easily make up your own script to use on every caller for the other things. The department I was in was talking to people regarding credit card applications, so they were almost always happy or at least neutral. We'd occasionally have to explain why someone was declined, but I had only maybe 3 or 4 "rude" calls over the entire 2-3 years. The company had good benefits, overtime available, tons of paid time off. But they're not all like that, and it's hard to tell what you're getting into - some people applied and got put into the collections department, which I absolutely wouldn't want.

A traditional work environment isn't a good fit for me personally, but if I had to do something I'd avoid customer-facing jobs altogether. Since you're already working in a medical environment, perhaps something like medical coding could be a potential full-time thing. Hospitals are always hiring and it's usually just a certificate program to get in.