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I'm Boots, 43 yrs old, I have NLD, so I hope that my being on this page is fine. I really been struggling with feeling good about myself. I lost another job this is the third one in three years. I have a masters degree in social work, and I'm finding that my problem is not with talking to people but keeping my paper work, organization, time management, and picking up employers nonverbals signals very well. I feel very lost, and concerned that I'm just not going to be able to maintain a job. Also, people have asked me what are my passions as far as careers go, and I honest don't really have one. I have personl intrests but nothing that has me totally focused or driven for a career, it seems it has been like this my whole life and I'm wondering if that is a symptom of NLD or if anybody else experiences this?
Thanks Boots

Hi & welcome. Just a small thing to pass on about organizational skills. I learned to live by lists as my capacity to just remember things decreased. I had a list for many things: like one to check before going to work... at work i had the usually 'things to do' list, but made another one each day I would carry in my pocket that I could always have to refer to... and where-ever at work I called home, had a whiteboard with the things I needed to give or get from other people, written in big letters in plain sight.

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I love lists, I make one most days. I have notebooks and also a folder on my computer. Without lists I would be lost.

Me too. List making, or a form of it is one of my most long standing pastimes and is very relaxing to me. Besides practical lists for living, its a off-shoot hobby of mine to make lists and various charts and diagrams of the many collections I have. They run from overviews to very detailed showing each item. I use them to see what I have and decide what I wish to add and more or less continually change things, which is what I guess makes it interesting, the redesigning. I keep a notbook and graph paper at the desk I take my breaks.

Hi! Welcome! I think lists could be a life saver for you.

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Mick