There was a great article in the parody newspaper The Onion this week that you can use to remind your ADD partner that everyone has aspects of their job that they hate.
New Lion Tamer Shocked By Vast Amount Of Paperwork
BARABOO, WI—Traveling circus performer Scott Mueller, who said he has dreamed of becoming a lion tamer since childhood, was dismayed Monday to discover that the most death-defying part of his new job is not putting his head into the mouths of ferocious animals, but the abundance of paperwork his profession requires.
"When you're a kid, you just assume it's all whips and chairs and keeping roaring jungle predators at bay," Mueller said. "But it's far less thrilling than it sounds. Do you have any idea how many forms are involved in transporting a federally controlled predator across state lines via train? And every county has a completely different set of health codes and what have you. Hell, just processing the immunization records alone takes me like six hours."
Mueller added that he sometimes wonders why he left the insurance business in the first place.
Even though this article is satire, it illustrates a good point. Every job, no matter how exciting it sounds, has some drudgery to it. Your ADDer may classify more things as drudgery than not, but it might help to remind them that work is work, even for lion tamers.
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