Ask HN: How do you manage a DevOps position with ADHD
Hi HN !
I'm wondering how you are managing a DevOps / SRE / infrastructure position with ADD/ADHD.
In my experience, it has been quite difficult because a lot of the time, the work makes us wait on pipelines to finish, machines to start, script to complete, cluster to respond... Without talking about the distractions of On-Call, slack messages, and questions from the rest of engineering.
During this wait, I can get distracted, and have a really hard time coming back to the task at hand, even sometimes forgetting what I was actually doing.
Do you have any good strategies for dealing with that ?
I'm wondering how you are managing a DevOps / SRE / infrastructure position with ADD/ADHD.
In my experience, it has been quite difficult because a lot of the time, the work makes us wait on pipelines to finish, machines to start, script to complete, cluster to respond... Without talking about the distractions of On-Call, slack messages, and questions from the rest of engineering.
During this wait, I can get distracted, and have a really hard time coming back to the task at hand, even sometimes forgetting what I was actually doing.
Do you have any good strategies for dealing with that ?
Thanks !