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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2009 18:28:05 GMT
Going back to work after 6 months off and diagnosis. Just wondered how people organise themselves at work, manage to keep job. How they make their lifes easier. How their job makes them feel? |Any ideas please Vicky
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2009 18:54:57 GMT
for me it was finding a job that i could do lol!!
Plus not being too bored helps, challenged, but not out of my depth! Its a mainly physical job as u know, i cant sit at desk all day! Unless i'm in here!!
Reducing hours could help to start?? How many hrs do u work?? x
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2009 19:19:40 GMT
I do 37 and half but doing less hours at mo as fazed return for month, gonna give it try, if doesnt work out then fair enough.xx
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Post by Skybird on Nov 23, 2009 14:11:46 GMT
I've found that if you're doing a job that suits your personality then it really helps. For example if you're the kind of person that gets bored doing the same thing all the time you need a job that has a variety of different tasks. If you're the kind of person who gets distracted easily then a job that can provide distractions is ideal as it's working with aspects of your personailty rather that against them and if you've got an understanding boss it helps too.
I've tried a couple of jobs in the past but the one I stuck to the longest was a sales assistant job in a nationwide retailer and I think it was because the job worked with the ADHD traits I had better than any other job I'd done in the past. I never stuck to doing just the one job all the time and the customers provided the distractions I needed to break the day up. Unfortunately the company went into administration last year and I lost my job but had they have stayed in business I know I'd still be there.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2009 15:55:59 GMT
I like order loads of storage have a clear out so when am busy I have like space to make a mess when I need to go by seat of pants then when its over have a tidy etc, and a safe place were sneaky gits cant play mind games and blame missing paper work on the cleaner or take it home just make sure you have a routine to make sure you dont leave at home, very important.
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Post by Atticus on Nov 24, 2009 14:35:20 GMT
I'd love to know how to organise self, job, life. All tips gratefully received.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2009 15:42:16 GMT
Do you work attitcus? if so do you find ot hard keeping it, or does your mind race?
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Post by Mouse on Nov 27, 2009 23:13:29 GMT
I can sit at a desk all day because all the calls are different but if I have to be jumping up and down to attend to visitors calling in then I find it distracts my brain too badly for me to return to the phone work effortlessly. There has to be a period of adjustment I can't seamlessly segue from one brain mode to another. It is like my driving. If I look in the rear view mirror of my car and then look forward again, I find I also automatically slow the car because my brain seems to take a moment to see and make sense of the road ahead. That is why I only really bother with rear mirror if I hear sirens or am reversing. ;D A job where no two days are the same is brilliant and I love my job for that particular aspect. people keep saying - oh we must give you a break from the phones and I have to keep saying, but I love being on the phones. Which I do. My colleague feels the same way. I am also very good at dealing with customers face to face but find days when I am in switching between two brain modes v difficult. So that is an aspect I am going to have to get to grips with. Realise as I type this that my brain modes depend on whether I am sitting down or moving around. So i can deal with lots of distractions in the phone work as long as deal with them without leaving the desk. Alternatively I am good at getting things done when I am in the moving around mode.. .but the two don't mix easily. Need days of either one or the other. I also like to keep my desk as tidy as possible - get fretty when it is messy. It is not a case of being a control freak but more a case of the the brain not needing the additional distraction of mess. I also found that getting up from desk to get an envelope creates a window of opp for body / mind to wander off and find self at the other end of the room without a clue why I am there. In previous jobs I made sure my desk was near the printer or I had a printer on my desk, and all stationery in desk drawer.. reduced opps for mind wandering. Makes for a bigger and wider bottom but there have to be sacrifices!! the only area I cannot control is my notebook which looks like the dealings of a mad woman. I have to complete jobs there and then as I'd not have any hope of understanding the notes if I had to refer to them a day later. That is why I am usually v good at making contemporaneous notes. (hope that means what I think it means...) I love my job, absolutely love it. I also worked in retail sales and loved that too - for the variety and no two days the same.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2009 11:14:26 GMT
Thanx for that mouse, my job is varied all day i can be sitting at desk planning then have a stay and play/baby group to organise at 1.00 for example then i tidy then might have to go out onb home visit, so it is very sporadic, and no day is ever the same. But at the same time confussing, as I struggle to focus cause of all the changes in the day.
Ive been told to take each day at a time and put up a too do list for that day only and not to jump. Actually from writting this, i know what reasonable adjustments can be made. I plan everything for that day on that day not weeks or days in advance, and to get it done i come in really early, but when everything done for that day i go, with my mind not wandering. Im gonna mention this at the next weekly meeting. Fantastic, im gonna write this down and bring it up at my next weekly meeting, i do flexi time anywsy so touch wood it shouldnt be a problem. Thanx so much mouse you are a star and made me really think!. I to love my job, its fantatic, interesting, and varied, and i so want to suceeded. I have to have a nice organised desk and not have to much on it for the same reasons you suggested, i also love people and am a people person like you. Thanx
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