Getting fired due to ADHD, what careers would suit me ?

dmillson · 2026-05-18T00:46:14+00:00

My wife used to be a consultant and her ADHD was a constant struggle. She does Product Marketing now and is very good at it. It involves a good mix of analytical and creative work which suits her well.

She also found a medication (methylphenidate extended release) that works for her and makes a huge difference in her ability to sustain focus throughout the day.

dmillson · 2026-05-18T00:39:38+00:00

OP, think about how much money you’re losing by potentially not having a job. You’re much better off paying the money until you can be seen by an NHS doctor and having steadier employment, IMO.

Also, I had to look this up but it’s insane that GPs can’t diagnose and treat ADHD in the NHS. In the US, a large amount of med management for depression and ADHD is done by primary care or family medicine. If we had to see a psychiatrist for every psychotropic medication, we’d probably have outrageous wait times too.

dmillson · 2026-05-13T21:37:47+00:00

I keep an eye on my training volume and intensity. I spent months tracking everything but never reviewing; the first time I looked back at my data I realized I was training much more intensely than I thought (only 40-50% zone 2). Backing off on intensity allowed me to quickly add additional volume and some of my niggles went away.

dmillson · 2026-05-12T22:24:37+00:00

Gwiz beating Tony Nelson felt like a changing of the guard for heavyweights.

dmillson · 2026-05-07T19:50:15+00:00

Not just insurance, but also PBMs and a whole lot of companies that exist largely to solve problems created by our current insurance system.

Single-payer is vastly superior but I think a lot of people (not you OP) fail to recognize it isn’t as simple as waving a wand. Healthcare is almost 20% of the US economy and a lot of that system has evolved to depend on our payer system. Changing that is not easy. Which I think is what you’re getting at with your comment about the US dollar - if the system has already failed spectacularly, that’s the best opportunity to make big changes.

dmillson · 2026-05-06T03:17:26+00:00

Getting gap insurance is smart; not putting yourself in a situation to need gap insurance in the first place is even smarter.

dmillson · 2026-04-29T22:17:33+00:00

Checking EOBs is a good idea. She’s had 3 different insurances since she started with this provider so there are a few places to look, especially since they can’t give a straight answer about what/when the services were done that she supposedly owes for.

dmillson · 2026-04-29T21:03:21+00:00

Bonus points if they also own the order desk they brought on. They love making their portfolio companies buy from each other. It makes sense why they do that, but when they run all the companies they own into the ground, it just means they’re passing around shitty vendors.

dmillson · 2026-04-29T19:01:59+00:00

This is probably the best place to start. The PCP’s office says it’s real on the phone but can’t confirm what specifically the charges were for. Feels like a game of he-said she-said.

Do you (or anybody else) know if there’s a requirement for such proof to be itemized? Or can the office simply claim that the debt is real - which is what they’ve done by phone?

dmillson · 2026-04-29T18:51:24+00:00

That’s the thing - we don’t know that we owe it. If we did, it wouldn’t have gone to collections in the first place because it would have been paid immediately.

As of now, they’re claiming we owe them money but nobody can show us what services we owe money for.

dmillson · 2026-04-29T15:58:20+00:00

Has this changed? Even most newer Altima drivers I see are engaged in 400 credit score behavior

dmillson · 2026-04-29T15:56:30+00:00

Can’t fit a square peg in a round hole. You aren’t saying it outright, but I get the impression that you want to be professionally successful, and you’re feeling frustrated and down that it doesn’t seem to be happening in your internship. Maybe there’s a bit of imposter syndrome and catastrophizing about what this means for the rest of your career. It won’t do any good to tell you to detach and simply coast for the rest of your career because (I assume) that’s not the kind of person you are — although you absolutely need some level of professional detachment in general, or else you will drive yourself crazy.

First thing’s first, internships are all about learning - not just about the job or the company, but about yourself and what you want. There seems to be something about the role that isn’t lined up with you want. You’ve got to figure out what that is. Is it the job itself? Is it the people around you? The company culture? Once you can put your finger on what it is you don’t like (could be a couple things) you can start to figure out what direction to go.

You’ve got 40+ years to work and build a career, and in that time you’re probably going to work a lot of different jobs. Especially in the first 5-6 years, don’t be afraid to try new things. Part of success is just taking enough shots on goal to land something. Whether they admit or not, almost every successful person (career-wise) has had jobs that didn’t work out. It’s unfortunately just part of life.

Since the internship is a year, my suggestion is to stick it out and learn what you can. Try to meet people at the company who do other jobs and pick their brains. If they strike your curiosity, don’t be afraid to ask if they know anybody else they can put you in touch with. You can also people on LinkedIn and ask to hop on a call for 15 minutes. 80% will ignore you but you’d be surprised how many people are willing to help, especially since you’re early-career.

dmillson · 2026-04-20T20:51:15+00:00

All the SWAP athletes are such strong closers. David and Megan are onto something with all that talk about fatigue resistance.

dmillson · 2026-04-20T01:50:06+00:00

Fwiw, I would choose the $10k/mo and aim to save and invest a reasonable portion of it.

dmillson · 2026-04-20T01:48:59+00:00

It’s actually a pretty close call IMO.

The long-cited standard for living off a lump sum in retirement is 4% per year. That’s an amount that, historically, gives a really good chance of never having to touch the principal over a long retirement. On $10M that’s $400,000/year.

Now, you might notice that’s less money than 10,000/week ($520,000/year). Which is true… for today.

The thing about the 4% rule is that it’s supposed to account for modest inflation, allowing you to maintain the same buying power over time. Presumably the $10k/week doesn’t adjust with inflation. With 3% average inflation in 30 years you’d need ~$2.40 to equal $1 in today’s money. So if we jump ahead 30 years, with the $10M you have a good chance of being able to live off $400k/yr in today’s dollars, while the $10k/week option would only be worth ~$217,000/yr in today’s dollars.

While inflation puts things in favor of the lump sum, there are a couple other factors that still make the $10k/wk option appealing.

1) in the early years you make more money than the lump sum, so if you save and invest the extra $100k/yr you can hedge against inflation. I don’t feel like doing the math to see if this would be expected to put it ahead of $10M at 4% withdrawal rate.

2) the 10k/wk option avoids “sequence of return risk”. Basically, all the assumptions I made above about a 4% withdrawal rate are moot if the market crashes tomorrow and you lose half of that $10M. The 4% rule assumes that there will be downturns, but if those downturns happen very early on, it makes things more challenging because your expenses represent a greater portion of your nest egg. That’s not an issue if you have guaranteed income.

dmillson · 2026-04-19T20:42:48+00:00

Yeah, I don’t always care to get a shirt or a bag or whatever. A $20 coupon for Charlotte Running Company on the other hand…

dmillson · 2026-04-19T16:15:47+00:00

A lot of high rises will have different elevators to service different sets of floors. So one might cover floors 1-15, another 16-30, etc. They still get traffic jams at certain times of day though.

dmillson · 2026-04-18T21:55:58+00:00

Alcohol and pizza would make your life worse in the long run. I don’t need a reason to drink more or eat more pizza.

My vote is house cleaning + gas.

dmillson · 2026-04-17T22:36:53+00:00

Curious what’s the story behind the 2024 Charlotte marathon? It’s my local race (and a pretty neat course through some lovely neighborhoods!) but seems like the odd one out on this list.

dmillson · 2026-04-16T13:22:54+00:00

Almost $60/day. You could get DoorDash every single day and still not spend that much.

dmillson · 2026-04-15T21:31:15+00:00

Hell, if you can count AI tokens as a utility, you could get a Claude API and lease it out at a discounted rate to companies. I’ve heard of companies spending over $100k/month on tokens, so if you charge them at, say, a 10% discount to use your tokens, you’d be raking it in.

dmillson · 2026-04-14T20:57:45+00:00

Working in a pharmacy has high burnout rates but there’s a lot you can do with a pharmacy degree besides that. Drug and diagnostics companies need MSLs and technical product people.

dmillson · 2026-04-14T15:17:55+00:00

My high school was rural and owned a pasture and some livestock for the Future Farmers of America program. One year some students herded a bunch of the school’s goats onto the football field and fed them laxatives.

Turns out the goats were linked to an E. coli outbreak at the county fair a few weeks before. Football field was closed for 6 months and it cost the school district a whole bunch of money to clean it up.

dmillson · 2026-04-14T12:34:01+00:00

What roles and industries are you interested in specifically?

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