Get into a field like IT where Certifications are more important than your degree. I only have an A.A.S degree because I also struggled with Math just like you. ADHD + TBI. It prevented me from getting B.S.
I instead got about 5 different Certification in IT and now whenever I interview I usually have multiple offers in a couple weeks.
Thank youu Soo much. And what certifications do you recommend? and sources you got them from. Am sure you understand how mentally grueling and unfair this stuff is! 😕
Start with your MTA. That's the basic IT cert for getting into Help Desk type roles.
From there your next cert should be A+. If you can skip the MTA and get A+ by itself that'd be good but A+ is harder.
From there it depends what you want to do it IT. Networking? Get the Network+ Cert. Cyber Security? Get the Security+ and CISA and CISSP certs.
I'm a Systems Admin. So I got these Certs (Most recent at top).
Start at the bottom and go up. Skip VMware unless you want to be a VMware Architect
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
CompTIA Security+ (SY0-501) – Security Plus
Apple Certified Associate – Mac Integration
CompTIA A+ (220-901 and 220-902) – A Plus
VMWare Certified Associate (VCA-WM) – Workforce Mobility
VMWare Certified Associate (VCA-DCV) – Data Center Virtualization
Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) – Windows Operating System
Digital marketing is another field where skills matter more than education. You can become fairly knowledgeable in a short amount time by completing courses and testing ideas out on your own. After a couple years, the pay can be nice in some areas as well
Thank youu. Do you know anyone who's doing it and loves what they do!
I’ll try and keep it short too, but I’m kinda bad at that.
Uber is a great move honestly. I’ve worked like 30 jobs in my life, lots of different jobs from farm work to food service to warehouses, design, consulting, writing code, ran little businesses. Out of all that stuff, which was amazing, being an Uber driver was one of the best jobs I ever had. If I had a car right now I’d consider doing it full time.
It’s amazing for providing cognitive surplus. All I have to do is drive, follow the blue line, and the jobs gets done. No anxiety about performance. But I enjoy talking to people.
Do you? I may have unwittingly made a wrong assumption let me know if I did.
Yeah Uber is low-status. And it gets old. Anything gets old and becomes a grind at least sometimes.
But it provides that cognitive surplus. You just drive around, follow the blue line, obey the traffic laws, all day. Then you get home and your mind has its capacity for decisions and creativity. You didn’t spend it all at work.
I’m gonna make a whole separate comment about my other point, but:
TL;DR: Uber is a great job, this coming from an adhd guy who’s worked like 40 jobs: boss is an egoless robot, daily social skills/conversation practice, job is dead easy leaving you cognitive surplus for your real work. And you get to listen to music all day, find out what you like
Oh right the other comment.
You might want to look into expanding your working memory. WM is basically RAM for conceptual, categorized, logic-ready content in your mind. And it’s like RAM in a computer: it can make operations more efficient, it can allow running tasks in parallel, and it can enable new programs that require a certain minimum amount of RAM to run.
I’ve found corollaries of each of these in my own mind after expanding my working memory: work takes less of a toll on my brain per unit of work, I can multitask with things like keeping track of what I’m doing and holding a conversation, and I can suddenly understand things that plagued me for decades. They just clicked, and I can see how it was because I just couldn’t load up enough points of data at once to correlate them.
I haven’t tried math again but I bet I could get further into it now.
Am confused, how did you manage to expand that? Thanks
One day I was stuck on the subway and played a Lumosity working memory game for over an hour. I had a dull, numb feeling in my head and it was hard to think by the end. My scores dropped sharply.
A couple of days later, everything was different. It was like I’d been working on a little school desk where I could never quite open the textbook and the notebook at the same time, and suddenly had a big office desk to lay my papers out on.
So basically working memory n-back games for long periods of time, to the point of exhaustion. Be aware that it seems to take longer recovery than muscles. I have to plan for at least two days of semi-downtime before I recover, because things are way harder for a couple days after reaching exhaustion.