I also have ADD. I'm untreated since it's kinda expensive and my job is easy enough to not need to be.
I'm glad that ADD/ADHD is more accepted now because I remember when the idea some people have problems focusing was immediately dismissed as laziness or a fault in character. I didn't even consider getting tested until far into adulthood because of the stigma.
Isn't it like a cultural thing over there where you're expected to work overtime and essentially kill yourself for your company? Might be dated info but I remember someone saying nobody even thinks about going home before the boss regardless of when they got in so the boss never has the chance to see them leave.
Almost everyone is super hyped that someone finally likes their work enough that they actually want it, let alone actually want to pay for it. So they undervalue their work and sell it for peanuts. I sometimes see work priced so low that it barely covers the supplies. They might sell a few but don't want to raise their price as they get better. Get a few people doing this and it becomes hard for legitimate creatives to sell their work at higher realistic prices.
Then there's overseas creatives. Some can do phenomenal work but you just can't compete with their prices even if they're pricing realiatically for where they live.
It's sort of the reverse side of The Greater Fool Theory in economics. Not sure if there is a term specifically for this, but it definitely causes a lot of irrational business decisions even outside of creatives.
I used to have a pretty successful business buying products at the monthly USPS lost mail auctions and reselling them online.
But a bunch of bloggers picked up on the opportunity and started hawking it as a get rich quick scheme. So people started showing up and way overpaying for things because there was so much competition. People were paying more for things like Macbooks than you could buy them new at Best Buy.
The first few times I saw it happen, I thought, well, this won't last, these fools will lose their shirts on all this and never come back. And I was right, people rarely came back a second time. But for months and months, new fools would show up and repeat the same exercise and never come back. After more than a year of that, we couldn't afford to keep going regularly. But for years kept checking back periodically and I saw no sign of prices going back to anything reasonable.
Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
Oh yeah I had family that did something similar. They did that whole thing where you bid on abandoned storage lockers. They actually did quite well considering how you can't rummage through everything prior to bidding. Made a small profit for a few years.
Then the TV shows came out and that put an end to that for them. Bids were too high that it wasn't feasible anymore.
Cocktails have been around since the 1800s. They may have changed a bit during prohibition, but to claim that they were created during that time for that purpose is just wrong.
Stephen King also wrote the short scifi story The Jaunt which is similar.
Basically a scientist makes a stargate type of device. Nonliving things that go through end up fine but living things like mice would either immediately just die or go absolute insane after exiting.
Long story short, the trip is instantaneous. But because they're traveling outside of our normal space time is perceived differently by conciousnes minds. So what seems like a split second to us on the outside things seem almost endless on the inside. Like anywhere from millions of years to the age of the universe. Endless time with nothing but their own thoughts. No body and just white light. Humans they test it out on either also die or end up going all Event Horizon when they exit.
They figured out a work around by knocking people out before putting then through.
My dad is/was a ham. My experience growing up with ham radio in the house was so negative that it's just kinda a turn off for me. Going back to the early 90s, for a lot of those old boomer types ham was mostly just a way to out-do eachother by showing off their rigs. It's kind of disappointing to me that they have this awesome technology they could have been taking to the next level but instead just spend hours whistling into the mic and bragging. In addition I got a sense that many of the old guys were actively working as gatekeepers as a way to stroke their own egos.
These guys were a big part of the hobby for years and because of that the hobby has been stagnate. But from what it looks like it seems that they're swiftly being replaced by the newer generation of tinkerers in recent years which is pretty awesome.
It's funny because I went back to school but worked as the printer guy within an IT dept for about 5 years before deciding to go back to school. Our dept kept going back and forth on what video conferencing we should use for our meetings for about 2 years, they just couldn't make up their minds. Not once was zoom ever mentioned. I was kinda shocked once schools (everyone almost actually) started universally using zoom because that's the first I've heard of it and I was aware of at least half dozen other options.
I'm glad that ADD/ADHD is more accepted now because I remember when the idea some people have problems focusing was immediately dismissed as laziness or a fault in character. I didn't even consider getting tested until far into adulthood because of the stigma.