Idk if this is the right comm, if not, please do not hesitate to beat me over the head with a large stick.

Necessary background: without doxxing myself, I'm 21, I live in the US, in a red state, and I have hella ADHD. I've only ever had two jobs in my life, one when I was sixteen, and one when I was nineteen, both in the food service industry. I live with my dad and stepmom but I've been paying for college with inheritance/social security money I saved up from my mom who passed away a bit ago. Anyways I'm taking this semester full time and I don't have enough in my bank account to pay for it and I REALLY don't want to take out a loan. My family is willing to help out this time but I need a job for future semesters. I have zero work skills and I don't want to get a job in the food industry again since last time was one of the worst periods of my life and I genuinely wanted to 300gorillion myself. Since I have ADHD my motivation and executive functioning are both pretty awful so I'm scared to get a job while I'm also taking a semester of college but it's looking like that's what I'm gonna have to do anyways.

What do I do? Does anybody have suggestions on what would be a good work environment that doesn't involve food but is still entry-level/wouldn't involve working for like Amazon or some shit (although monopolization will inevitably have every job mean working for Amazon so maybe that's not as worrisome as it seems).

Thank you in advance, sorry if it's wrong comm/dumb question.

  • gaycomputeruser [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Are you medicated? That alone makes work a lot more tollerable (in my experience, obv). Does your school hire? That would be the best bet, as they tend to be more flexible and forgiving. Most of those are min wage with about 30 hours/ week max, depending on the school, but the real advantage is the flexibilty tuat manageelrs usually allow. I'm sorry, I can't really think of much else beyond warehouse stuff and what I said before.

    • GingusBingus [any, any]
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      2 years ago

      I am medicated, and my school does hire, that's a good idea. Only problem is I've heard horror stories about campus jobs but idk if that's unique to our institution or if they're just a product of being work under capitalism lmao

        • GingusBingus [any, any]
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          2 years ago

          I do email all my profs about my adhd prior to the semester for that reason, but thanks for reminding me about it lmao i definitely forgot (which like, fitting lol) :)

          • gaycomputeruser [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            It would also be good to check if the university has acomodations, those can help school be less strenious by changing things profs won't or can't.

            • GingusBingus [any, any]
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              2 years ago

              I applied for accommodations a while back because my therapist told me to and I qualified but ended up internalized ableism'd myself and didn't make use of them bc I was too self conscious/full of myself/whatever, but I can definitely make use of them this time, thanks for the advice! :)

      • Bobson_Dugnutt [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        My campus job was sitting in a computer lab and making sure nothing got stolen for a few hours every week