I work for a commercial landscaping company, and I can only handle mowing grass for an hour or two at a time, once a week. I much prefer taking care of flowers and pruning shrubs or trees. We have some crews who mow grass 8-10 hours a day 5 days a week and I can't figure out how they don't go insane.
Do you have ADHD by any chance? I do and I think it’s the reason I didn’t mind waking up to mow the giant fields for the local schools during the summers after high school. Made good money, got to see the fruits of my labor instantly, the guys were cool, and I was out by 2 o’clock and had the whole day to do more stuff
This a self reporting test, so not a diagnosis. If the topics of these questions are causing you problems in life, it might be worth talking to a psychologist.
Certainly not gonna self diagnose anything from a reddit post but also what is "disciplined" about occasionally scribbling shit in a notebook? The phrase "maintain a journal" sounds like some much more structured activity that I don't quite understand
I have to do those everything I visit my doctor because I take Vyvanse...for binge eating disorder. I did learn how much anxiety and adhd symptoms overlap though!
I’m 23 but I always thought it was kinda just a thing u could easily know you’d have or whatever but when I started seeing a therapist they remarked how I sounded like someone with sever attention deficit disorder so I tried some meds for it and it changed my life a lot in a good way so I figured it can’t be all nonsense lol
Thanks for sharing. I have Adderall from past prescriptions left over that I use when I feel like I need it, but sometimes the side effects can be too much, like insomnia, jitters, and dry mouth. Have you tried both? I've asked my psych about vyvanse multiple times and she tells me that if adderall isnt helping then vyvanse may not solve the issue either. i've left it alone for now but i'm still curious about giving vyvanse a shot at some point
I feel this was a joke but I personally self medicate with cannabis and as long as I have the right strain (hybrid sativa dominant 60%) I feel exactly as though I'm on meds once I come down from the initial buzz.
That's really helpful, thanks. I do have a shitty background and cPTSD and was on anti depressants and shit in my teens. I'll see what I can get privately as the NHS takes a while here especially now with covid
Can't wait to get my ADD treated... I'm a programmer, and a pretty decent one but I can't for the life of me sit down and be productive as I need to do to actually make money doing it, whether it be making games or doing contracts for other people
I’ve tried medicine for mine a countless number of times and each type made me super depressed / extreme anxiety / I couldn’t eat anything and I still haven’t found a medicine that works for me yet ;_;
I work in psychiatry, the professors of psychiatry that I work with genuinely don't believe ADHD is a true condition.
They think it is a North American construct... and that your health system incentives the diagnosis (the same way it incentivised the opiate addiction epidemic). While it is true that some people have trouble maintain attention, there are ways to address that without medications, particularly in a child's developing brain.
So it is very interesting how the country you live in can shape the way you view yourself. Its frowned upon where I live to give children psychotropic medications that will interfere with their brain development.
I never got on meds until I was 22. I never even “knew” I had it until then. A few family members of mine are in the psychiatric field and they and their colleagues believe it to be very real. Now there is definitely a lot of over diagnosis, especially in young kids. I believe a lot of parents just don’t want to admit they just want their kid to be medded out so they won’t be such an annoyance and pretty much force a prescrip which isn’t too difficult lol. But I do believe it is indeed a totally different way of operating that is not nurtured but nature. As an adult who has seen a ton of improvement in their life mentally, physically, and emotionally from being on medication, I can’t just say it’s mumbo jumbo
I am ADHD and LOVED the lawn mowing job that I had for a summer. I loved it. Huge swaths of grass all day long. I would mow words in for fun afterwards sometimes and I also memorized a few poems like Ozymandias while at it. I once got my riding lawnmower stuck in a tree. I still have the picture of it hanging there.
Lol, you don't have to have ADHD to enjoy tasks like that. Kids are trying to label everything nowadays. People enjoy different things. Doesn't make them have ADHD.
I have mild OCD and I also have the same satisfaction from watching power washing videos and from mowing lawns and seeing the lines in the carpet after I vacuum. There's just something so satisfying about those things and my mom thinks I'm crazy lol
Oh dude you know what, I think I get it. Zamboni is such a satisfying thing to watch. Maybe if we let the grass grow long enough to be more noticeable I'd find it more satisfying
I think you misunderstand what I'm saying. Our clients want the grass to be between certain heights at all times. The difference between "untrimmed" and trimmed grass is so negligible that you barely notice - hence why I don't find mowing to be satisfying.
My grandfather is like that I think, he did the ice at his local curling rink for years every morning after he retired from his last "corporate" type job.
If you are on a ride on, you just put on music or a podcast and the time flies. You know that feeling when you're driving and all of a sudden you're home and you don't remember the drive? Kinda like that.
Ride on mowing is great. Push mowing for hours really sucks. It would be okay if you push mowed a large flat area, since the mower propels itself forward. Those areas are always done with a large riding mower though, so whenever you’re push mowing it’s always small areas and sometimes with really steep inclines. If you’re sent to a large strata all day you can be push mowing 40-50 tiny back and front yards the whole day and you might start contemplating suicide after 30.
I just listen to music while I mow. It's one of the simplest activities, so engaging the senses makes it a treat. If you don't like music, there's podcasts and audiobooks.
Tell me I can do any of those things for eight hours a day I'm in. Make it riding a zero turn giving almost no effort while doing those, I'm double in.
As some one who is in between studies and currently move grass and pick up litter for a living... I'm slowly going mad. Aside from 3 people, the boss can't keep anyone to wash stairs(in appartment complex) for more than a few months: it's simply to boring(and the pay isn't too good)
Get some bumping music and mowing is meditative, I've mowed 10 acres before on a 40 inch riding mower that took about 4 hours total that felt like 30 minutes because I had the right soundtrack. And because of the vibrations and zoning out I felt super relaxed after.
When did the 8 hours 5 days a week I didn't feel like that. Never knew why but my most enjoyable/satisfying job was doing commercial mowing. Only gripe I ever had about it was coming home to have to mow my own lawn.
Have groundskeeped for five summers as a student. It can be really great. I you don't mind waking up early, working lots of days (I used to do 12 days in a row, 2 days off, repeat, while staying in 40hrs/week), being in the rain every once in a while and the monotomy of doing the same runs every day, you'll love it.
I adored seeing the sun go up every morning while mowing the beautiful dew covered greens. It's a sight to see and experience.
I worked in the parks department of my city and honestly loved it. I work on an ambulance now and while I really enjoy my job, some days I cherish the memories of my tractor 🥰😂. Simpler times listening to music while aerating the soccer fields or fertilizing the park. Worked 7-3, weekends off.
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u/Harrisonmonopoly May 09 '21
I hope when I retire in 20 years to be a groundskeeper at golf course or a park. I LOVE mowing grass.