Problems with my jobs

I am 36 and since one year ago I know I suffer from attention deficit disorder innatentive type.
I spent too many years to finish my degree. Eventually I finish my degree after having studied harder, long hours but inefficiently.
I had several jobs and I have been fired twice because of my poor performace. I dis my best and I always daydreamed of being the perfect employer and making a magnifient career.

All this have caused me a very low self-esteem. I always had a lot of troubles to find a job, something perfectly understable living in Spain(currently 23% unemployment rate).
I always have worked for unquilified and temporary jobs, after having studied for so long. This is very deceiving for me.
In all the jobs I have worked before, I felt so anxious that I made a lot of mistakes.

I have been working for an internship being 34, too old for a trainee. That is why I felt so embarrased to tell people what I did at this job.
I feel very sad now because I am currently unemployed and my life is static. When I see people who are 22 and they are working, they studied their degree in the proper time, their life is going by........and I am 36 with problems to find a job......I feel depresed.

Sometimes I imagine how different would have been my life I did not suffer from ADD. Maybe I would have been working for an interesting firm, maybe I would have got married and had got children. I have so frustrating situation because of my ADD.
But since I was diagnosed one year ago, I feel much better about myshelf because I know what happens to me.

Did you have problems with jobs because of ADD?.

Hi, roubacap! Hey, I'm looking for a job myself and I'm past the college age too. I'm not ADD, but lots of people have regrets and trouble finding a job. Don't be so hard on yourself.
You could look for something interesting and new that you might enjoy doing even if it's not related to your degree. Maybe it'd give you a boost.

Yes, I have always had trouble finding and keeping a job.

I'm 35 years old and unemployed, I have never worked in a long term position.
either it was temp agencies,seasonal jobs,I had to quit or I was fired.

My longest steady job was 3 months.

My problems are and were lack of motivation,lack of concentration, trouble learning and trouble sticking to anything.

I finally have found a college and a major that I can stay with, so far anyway.

You re not alone in your frustration.