[MH/Job/Capitalism] Auuuuuuugh ADHD brain, please. PLEASE. I am fucking begging you to let the executive FUNCTION. Please let me do my fucking reading, I NEED TO DO SO MUCH FUCKING READING. This is an ENTIRELY NEW FUCKING FIELD.

I know it's boring, I know you hate Wall Street on sheer PRINCIPLE. But on a purely conceptual level, not ALL finance and investment is what shitstains have turned it into. Just let me fucking buckle down and process this information.

I relate to this so much

What job are you getting into!!

... did not mean to put two exclamations I'm so sorry

shakes ur brain!! avoidance causes MORE STRESS IN THE LONG TERM even if the thing is hard now AAAHH I know easier said than convincing our brains of it but oof

My dad is a financial advisor and hired me to be his assistant, but I have all of zero experience in this field.

You can do iiiit

So I've got a stack of books to read, and I'm supposed to be reading news articles about the market and shit too.

And my brain is just 10 hours screaming unskippable

At least for now, it's practically my job to be back in school, even without a formal degree involved.

I would offer you advice but I know reading techniques are different for each of us

I CAN theoretically read and study just fine, it's actually getting the metaphorical engine to start and stay running that's the problem.

Totally understand

question: are you on meds? if you are not I tentatively recommend trying caffeine

^

I hate coffee but when I was in school having a cup when I was not sufficiently medicated helped a looot

the side effects suck but so does trying to get your brain to engage when it doesn't want to

plurk no

...plurk kind of yes even if that wasn't the emote I was initially reaching for

Not on meds these days, but caffeine never seems to do anything for me, I WISH it did. I'm drinking a cup of GFuel right now because I figured it was about time to give self-medicating a shot again.

Best of luck, pal.

Still tastes great, they make some damn good shit, but it isn't doing the shit it's advertised to do.

Thank you~ I'll do my best.

LMAO honestly that's a fair way to look at it.

I might take you up on that, so far I'm mooooostly understanding shit except when the equations get brought out, but I don't seem to be expected to understand the more econ/mathematics heavy side of things.

I'm thankfully not far enough for horrifying implications just yet.

Only far enough to Psyduck over trying to reconfigure my brain to be like "Okay, so being financially responsible is a BAD thing in this context, since if you're not putting yourself in strategic debt, your money isn't DOING anything for you? And the wholeass economy is fucked if TOO many people are financially responsible and don't shit money everywhere?"

It's like 'preparing for failure', but writ large.
And usually not about your own failure.
Also something about not wanting to hoard things.

hhhhhhh it's The Worst

I don't like risk at all, this is bullshit

Y'all are ruining perfectly good apes. Look at us, we've got anxiety.