Comment by calmbonsai
21 hours ago
Heh. FWIW, I've only ever been fired from one job. I lasted 3 whole days at a bagel bakery.
I had the exact same issue switching from bakery, to line, to register.
Everyone else seemed to have this "context switching superpower". I watched two peers (we were all in high-school) seemingly effortlessly go from line to register and back to line 3x within the same shift. I couldn't.
I could do all of the jobs and was (subjectively) the best on-the-line (real-time 3D Tetris + flavor), but I could only be good one-job-at-a-time.
Yep, very relatable. I do feel like there's a bit of a difference when I'm able to "own" something, in the sense that my job is to always know how everything's going, but not necessarily get locked into anything for too long. I do wonder how medication affects this, because I've since been in positions where I'm responsible for a bunch of varied tasks getting completed, but I still think I'd fail at switching between things that have specific sequences of steps that need to be followed while interacting with people. I tend to not be able to only devote part of my attention to something, and so I avoid group chats like the plague.
Ownership whether actual or cultural is big for me too. I can't speak to any specific medication protocols.
Truth regarding combining this with social interactions. Though I've never done it, I suspect my anti-job would be a bartender.