This is exactly how I describe being on atomoxetine to my friends and family. It’s not a magic moment of clarity, it just takes the edge off of my need to dive down every rabbit hole I see. I can still do that of course (and sometimes it still happens when I should be doing something else) but on the whole it’s easier to pull myself out of the distraction spiral before it becomes too bad.
Honestly I’d leave it empty and cap the gap with pavers or similar. What it sounds like you are describing is how you build a smokeless fire pit and you’d want to avoid interrupting the airflow in that case.
I feel this way sometimes, then remember what the alternative was and don’t feel as bad. (To save the lookup for those that don’t know, Mehmet Oz was the republican candidate in 2022).
One of the risks around monetizing hobbies is that while you may enjoy that hobby now, doing it to make more adds level of stress and responsibility that can quickly make it into another job that you no longer love. Places like Etsy are competitive and reward consistency in listing and sales, so to have any real success you can’t really list just one or two items and wait for them to sell. You’ll drop far down in search rankings and suddenly your store dies because Etsy stops sending people to it.
This isn’t to say don’t try, but be aware it isn’t as easy as “hobby but get paid for it”.
Yeah, I am very familiar with the clearance process. Not saying lower wage jobs don’t exist with clearances (I mean buildings need custodians and janitors, cafeteria workers, repro office workers, etc), just that I can’t imagine Dominos requesting, getting sponsored, and then paying for a delivery driver to be cleared, it just isn’t needed.
Not in my experience, clearances are really expensive (last I saw it was in the $5-6k range per initial clearance package, and about 2/3s that each reinvestigation). Most secure workplaces will have a lobby for receiving things like this where they will call either a central mailroom to deliver it or whomever ordered it to come grab it (especially if it still needs paid for).
This is a fairly known way reporters track activities around DC. I recall a similar story about the raid on Bin Laden and food deliveries to the pentagon and White House.
Sharpening a blade that’s in decent condition on a stone should only take a few minutes. If it’s badly dinged up or needs a new edge entirely it can take a lot longer though. I spend about an hour every couple months to sharpen all of our kitchen knives, it’s 100% worth it.
I never did great in school, I’d ace tests but just not do homework so my grades were middling at best. I did much better at my undergrad but mostly because I loved my major so much. It was like being able to dive into that ADHD rabbit hole every day and still be productive. It was hard so I didn’t do phenomenal, but I did well. All this to say I wasn’t “having trouble” so never got evaluated as a kid.
Fast forward though an online masters I got straight A’s in, and the beginnings of a successful career, I just assumed I was lazy and a bit apathetic. As I got into my early thirties though I started seeing more videos and blog posts about young adults getting diagnosed with ADHD and everyone sounded like how I experience the world. I just couldn’t really ignore it.
I started having trouble with work, I was missing due dates, forgetting to sign documents I’d reviewed, and just generally missing details and falling behind and I hated it! I ended up somehow aiming my rabbit hole cannon one day at finding a psychologist to get evaluated and scheduled an appointment for something like three months out.
Long story short I have moderate combined type ADHD which explains most of my struggles as a kid, am now on atomoxetine and things have gotten better. Took until my mid thirties but better late than never.