How Hyperfixations Built My Career

<p>Can you take a special interest or hyperfixation and turn it into a job?</p><p>I never intended to become a vice president. It happened accidentally.</p><p>When I look back at my career—from video production and broadcast journalism to social media, podcasting, publishing, leadership, and the work I do now—I can see how one interest kept leading to another.</p><p>In this episode, I talk about how I used transferable skills to move from one kind of work into another, and how breaking down the things you do around a hobby, special interest, or hyperfixation can help you identify skills you may be able to use on a résumé, in a cover letter, or during an interview.</p><p>I also talk about how discovering that I&#39;m autistic and ADHD helped me understand my own career differently: the hyperfixations, the monotropism, and why I needed work that interested me and gave me energy.</p><p>Because when you break an interest down into the individual things you&#39;re actually doing, you may find skills you can take with you into other kinds of work.</p><p>Skills are skills.</p><p><strong></strong><a href="https://payhip.com/b/IGXHn" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><strong>Check out the Drains and Sparks AuDHD Workplace Workbook </strong></a><strong></strong></p>