Posted by spoc on April 24, 2004, at 15:23:44
In reply to Re: What Jobs do BiPolar's do well in?, posted by noa on April 24, 2004, at 8:27:38
> Maybe in jobs with non-regular work hours and untypical boss-worker set ups? Like working as a consultant or contractor rather than a regular employee who has to deal regularly with ordinary work hours or ordinary office politics or ordinary staff meetings or ordinary relating to the boss, etc.? Where work can happen in spurts, more independence is assumed, and creativity is needed? >
------That's a great fit, but I wanted to say, don't phinagle TOO much latitude, like I did. I am 110% free to do -- or not do -- as I wish, and for complicated reasons I won't get into, it's much less likely to be discovered if I let myself fall asleep at the wheel. Which I shouldn't make sound trivial -- if I fall asleep at it, that is actually coming from slipping into increasing periods of a lethargic depression that leads to inefficiency; OR being able to get hyperattentive/sidetracked by things unrelated to work. And to let that continue with few constraints.
It also has made me exponentially less likely to work on or fight my problems and nature, to expose myself to the things I do need to remember how to -- or learn how to -- handle.
But, EtktRide, it sounds like you don't have these tendencies, that you are mostly drive and energy. So they might not be dangers to you. A person with ambition radiating from any source will so often do spectacularly if allowed to stop trying to flow with the mainstream. I'm not ambitious, and am obsessive about things I start, but not manic or energetic about them. So for me, any time I free up through increasing my flexibility ends up getting spent in either other things taking longer; or in rolling over and giving up because I *can.*
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