Well, as I posted before I made job switch about 6 months ago. I took a contract to perm position and I have been given an offer to go perm. Hoping to sign the offer if the money ends up being correct. I am hoping to be not to far off from those six figures.

I can’t say again how much being in the right environment, well and the correct job/ responsibilities, is the key to how successful we are as ADHD/Right brainers. My last position was with a very conservative company with very conservative managers, who were very risk averse. These were also the type of managers that hate the new guy/girl with big ideas. I can remember the first day I wrote one of the those footers on my email, the one down by your name. Mine was something like “If you don’t like change you will like irrelevance even less.”, people were freaking out. Its a foot note, what is the big deal? The managers are type that micro manage you and worry about if your taking to long of lunch and coming in on time. The kind that expect you to work overtime if need be, but an extra day off forget about it. The kind of managers that are focused on your 40 (hours) and your every move rather than on your deliverables. Anyway, this company is the type of place where all the managers are in the maintenance mode of their careers, which means they are sitting pretty and just along for the ride and good paycheck.

Of course, these are the types of companies and managers where we ADHD/Right Brained people don’t fit in. We clash with the management, because we are fast paced and we want change that will help make the company better and stronger. So we either get demoted, get forced out, or get fired.

Fast forward to today, I now work for company (startup) where they only worry about what you deliver and if your doing your job, not if you are working 40 hours. Need extra time off no problem I will make it up some day when I work overtime to finish a project. I never see my boss unless we go run together at lunch or if I have a question for him. As long as I am doing what needs to be done, he doesn’t care. No ideas are shut down, as long as they make the product better. Nobody being territorial.

All I can say is I love my job and they would have to force me to leave. No boring repetitive tasks either!!! I am doing development (a.k.a programming). Yes, ADHD/Right Brain people can be developers, as long as its with programming languages that allow you to be creative, Ruby on Rails (ROR) and Flex work for me. Sure you can be creative with any language to some extent, but with ROR and Flex/Flash the a lot of the details are handled for you, especially with ROR.

Plus, I still get to work with graphics.