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No.  I’ve been a flight attendant for the past 12 years which is about as far from traditional office as you can get!  I only got officially diagnosed with ADD early this year despite my long-held suspicions.  I have no idea how to thrive in a traditional office setting, though my life is definitely challenged too.  Being a flight attendant has enabled me to thrive in my negative patterns for a very long time.  It had been a lovely escape from all of your tedious day-to-day chores/tasks.  Aside from being side-lined from flying due to a worker’s comp injury for 10 months, I haven’t spent more than two weeks in one place in over a decade.  For several years I started to feel anxious if I didn’t have immediate plans to either work or go somewhere for a personal trip.  I couldn’t stand the thought of being in the same place every day, all day!

Now though, I am tiring of life on the go.  It is a source of tension on my home life, and I’m ready to hang up my wings.  My ideal plan is to launch a business that I’ve been working on for the past year and a half.  While that hasn’t picked up the traction I had hoped it would by now, I’m looking at the dreaded office job to bridge the gap between the two.  I’m hopeful the structure of a day to day regular schedule will assist in helping me to create positive routines to quell my negative symptoms.  Right now, I’m trying to manage some semblance of organization while having fluctuating starts and ends to my day, being in different time zones, and being too exhausted to try to manage my ADD when I do have the time.  Once I DO get my business off of the ground, I won’t have the trappings of the traditional office job.  It’s mostly online and I will still travel, but it will be limited to when I can conveniently schedule it around my home needs as well as being less frequent than my current schedule.

Good luck to all of those out there who are trying to manage at work!  I’m unfortunately well-known for being late.  There are some trips that I’m better about being on time than others, but it’s a daily struggle for me…

 

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