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I am a jack of all trades because I have ADHD.
Exactly. There’s a reason why the full description is “Jack of all trades, master of none”
the full saying is “a jack of all trades, master of none is oft better than a master of one”
You got it right. Its a complement when said in full.
“…ofttimes better than a master of one.”
Because we shouldn’t have masters, hierarchies are bad.
That’s not really a hierarchy thing though.
Just a measure of how skilled / experienced someone is, and how suitable it is for them to be teaching someone else.
I think we need more people sharing their knowledge and we don’t need the blind leading the blind.
Humans are literally Jack of All Trades. The big evolutionary advantage of brain power is that it lets animals adapt to new things in a single lifetime, rather than having to evolve adaptations to it over generations, and humans primary evolutionary advantage is our massive generalized brain power.
Capitalism says to specialize, human nature says to be a jack of all trades.
I assume this community will disagree strongly, but ADHD honestly does not seem like an actual disorder (as in, an objective detriment, and one that evolution would select against in the long term), so much as just our brains not being particularly suited to capitalism and capitalists gas lighting the masses into thinking that’s abnormal.
I often wonder if we’re supposed to be as smart as we are, like in general. I see some people and think “what a fucking moron” but like put them next to basically any other animal on the planet and they’re doing alright.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
I assume this community will disagree strongly, but ADHD honestly does not seem like an actual disorder…
Not fitting into Capitalism has nothing to do with common ADHD traits such as lack of emotional regulation, time blindness, and our tendency towards risky behaviors.
So yeah, I do strongly disagree with your attempt to blame the negative aspects of ADHD on an economic system…because it’s bullshit.
I could be anything from an Mesopotamian King to a rider in the Mongol horde to a Medieval Peasant and my brain would still have the same damn problems.
Not fitting into Capitalism has nothing to do with common ADHD traits such as lack of emotional regulation, time blindness, and our tendency towards risky behaviors.
All of those traits generally make you a less predictable and harder to manage worker. Capitalism absolutely cares about those traits very significantly.
I could be anything from an Mesopotamian King to a rider in the Mongol horde to a Medieval Peasant and my brain would still have the same damn problems.
This is literally impossible to say. Your brain would still work similarly, but it would have been shaped by entirely different stimuli and environment, so it would not be working the same. It’s also entirely possible that those tendencies are beneficial in different historical contexts. Other systems like feudalism may also similarly view ADHD as a detriment, but that doesn’t mean that every system / context does.
Person above you likely has never experienced executive disfunction.
I need to do this, I actually want to do this, why am I not doing this?
Or the ever popular extension of that: I’ve not done it so long that I’m insanely uncomfortable about it and will actively avoid the space in which it is in and do other things (read: nothing) while obsessing about the thing you need to do and the fact that you haven’t done it until you nearly have a nervous breakdown
The task: laundry, dishes, sweeping, etc
Putting off yardwork untill your lawnmower can no longer handle the density of plant matter. And then just calling the area a wild flower field, or pollinator haven or some other excuse for just not touching it.
We let the NTs use that term because the real answer would terrify them. It’s all pattern recognition. I’m not “good” at any particular skill but the world is transparent to me. If I understand how something works I can recreate its function.
To them it looks like this is happening in real time. To me, the constantly spinning wheels in my mind grab traction for a fraction of a second giving the illusion of progress.
I’ve got good fine motor control, which means that I can sew, knit, roll a joint, braid hair, make a pastry, seal a dumpling, fold origami, draw, sculpt, paint nails, pick a lock, and most other fine dexterity tasks, excluding musical instruments.
This sounds like bragging, but I didn’t do anything to earn the ability to do this, I literally just do it and it works. I’m not proud of it (though I’m occasionally proud of the things I can craft) and I don’t think anyone else is unskilled because it doesn’t work when they do it.
Don’t describe my career so accurately
One preceded the other.
Is that a young Christian Bale?
I’m a millwright with adhd. I’m a fully qualified jack of all trades.
How do you like millwright? I’m looking for a career change and that was something I was considering.
I enjoy it well enough for work. I have an aptitude for it and can fit in the tight spaces I need to in the role that I’m in. It’s all the issues of being a mechanic with the added joy of your machine can be as big as a building.
I know in Canada with a red seal I have a lot of options if I am willing to travel/relocate. The pay is on par with other trades if your boss doesn’t want massive turnover.
That’s good to know. I’m pretty good at fitting into tight spaces too, and think working on machines would be really interesting. My dad actually did millwright apprenticeship for a year before changing to welding, so I’ve spoken to him about it too, but it’s good to have multiple perspectives, especially from someone who actually does it as a career. I’m also Canadian, so that’s good to know too.
One of the things I have noticed is that there are more and more electronics on things. So if you do decide to become a millwright pay attention in the controls block.
Good to know. Thanks for the info, I’ll keep it in mind.
But that makes me a jack of all trades. ADHD is just the reason I go from one thing to the next
Adderal is awesome
No I am a jack of all trades. I seem to do well at whatever I need to. Thanks to ADHD.
Some call it ADHD. I call it novelty seeking. I mean, I’m probs somewhere on the spectrum, but if ADHD is abnormal … I don’t want to be normal. Normal seems boring and narrow minded.
I’m more like a 4–8 of all trades if we’re using playing cards as a scale.
maybe a 10 at Balatro
We’re not. Jack is just another way to say “guy”, “man”, or “dude”
Edit: or more specifically but less relevant now, “peasant” or “commoner”, someone of low social status.
Kind of interesting to compare to “Guy”, another instance of a given name turned into a generic term.
Better than a “John” of a… uhm… particular trade.
Calm your tits, Mickey7 alt.
