Great Jobs for ADHDrs

As usual, I'm wasting a bunch of time today surfing the web. Those Internet rabbit trails tend to be a perfect place for us ADHDrs to get lost and procrastinate! One of my favorite new blogs is A Hunter in a Farmer's World. On his latest blog post, a comment was made from a police officer with ADHD and Chris (the blogger) mentioned he'd considered law enforcement as well. It got me to thinking...are there some jobs that are really good for ADHDrs?

Now I know there are variables here (personal preference, skill sets, geography, education, socio-economic background, degree of ADHD, if there are other coexisting conditions, etc.), but I was thinking, in general, if some jobs lend themselves to being better for ADHDrs than others?

In my own career, I was lucky enough to be at the corporate offices of a major company during their high-growth years, so I always doing a new and different job. Now, I do consulting, so I work from home and control my own hours and work methods to a great extent. While it's been great for me, especially as a parent, I also think it's "enabled" me a bit. Since I don't have to sit for long periods and pay attention, it may have lowered my attention span further. It also may have contributed to my lack of organization. Like any job, for anyone, it has it's plusses and minuses, but overall it's been a great solution for me.

The advice from ADDitude Magazine is for ADHDrs to do any job that they love, since it's when we are interested that we are most engaged. You might say that would be true for anyone, but most non-ADHDrs are able to set aside what they want to do for what they have to do (not that they enjoy doing it, but they can); it's not a gift ADHDrs are necessarily blessed with!

Other great ADHD jobs? Anyone?