You’ve been lied to your entire career.
They told you the problem was focus. It wasn’t. They told you the problem was motivation. It wasn’t. They told you the problem was you. It wasn’t.
The problem is alignment—and nobody taught you how to find it.
Most ADHD professionals don’t struggle because they’re incapable. They struggle because they’re working in environments that were never designed for their brains. Wrong work style. Wrong expectations. Wrong coping strategies borrowed from neurotypical advice that was never going to work.
And here’s the brutal truth: every day you spend in the wrong role, you’re not just unhappy—you’re burning neural pathways that make it harder to recover. The longer you wait, the deeper the damage.
But there’s a way out. And it starts with understanding something nobody talks about.
The Problem Nobody Talks About
After years coaching high-achieving ADHD adults—the creative ones, the intense ones, the RSD-sensitive ones, the ones who can outperform anyone but can’t always explain how—I realized something was missing in the career world:
A way to actually map someone’s ADHD Work Style… and then give them a step-by-step protocol to build a career around it.
Not another productivity hack list. Not a generic “find your passion” course. A real system.
So I built JobCoffin.com.
The 3-Step System That Changes Everything
Step 1: Take the Work Style Assessment
Every client starts with our Work Style Assessment, a tool designed to map your unique ADHD brain. Grounded in proven frameworks like the RIASEC model, this isn’t a personality quiz; it’s a diagnostic tool that identifies:
The RIASEC model, also known as the Holland Codes, is a theory of careers and vocational choice based upon personality types. The six personality types are Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional. The model helps you identify career paths that are a good fit for your personality and interests.
- Your dopamine triggers (what actually motivates you vs. what “should” motivate you)
- Your rejection sensitivity patterns (what feedback styles shut you down)
- Your task initiation blockers (why you can’t start even when you want to)
- Your hyperfocus zones (where you lose track of time in a good way)
The output is a personalized Work Style Profile that serves as the foundation for your entire career strategy.
Why this matters: You can’t build a career strategy until you know what you’re working with. Most career coaches skip this step and wonder why their advice doesn’t stick.
Here’s what most people discover: The job they thought they wanted isn’t the job their brain actually needs. And that mismatch? It’s been sabotaging them for years.
Step 2: Match Your Work Style to Real Jobs
Once we have your Work Style Profile, we don’t just point you in a general direction. We use our proprietary 5-component prediction formula to match you with real job listings from our active_jobs_db.
Our algorithm weighs skills at 40% of the total match score, ensuring that the opportunities you see are aligned with your actual abilities. We show you:
- High-novelty roles for brains that need constant change
- Deep-focus roles for brains that hyperfocus on problems
- People-facing roles for brains that need human interaction to stay engaged
- Project-based roles for brains that thrive on finishing things (not maintaining them)
We’re not asking “What do you love?” We’re asking “What environment lets your brain perform without fighting itself?”
This is where it gets interesting. Most people have been chasing the wrong jobs their entire careers. When they finally see roles that actually match their brain? The relief is physical.
Step 3: Build Your Career Path (With Guardrails)
This is where the JobCoffin.com system truly shines. We provide you with a structured, supportive environment to build your career path.
- The 16-Week Program: Our program is a guided journey that helps you develop the skills and strategies you need to succeed.
- Skills Gap Analysis: We help you identify the skills you have and the skills you need to develop to reach your goals.
- ADHD-Optimized Certification Recommendations: Our certification recommendation engine suggests specific, high-ROI certifications that align with your work style and career goals. We even have an
adhdOptimizedfilter to show you the “Best Value-to-Effort” options.
JobCoffin tracks every application, every interview, every rejection, and every pattern. Your Experiential Genome grows with every action you take, allowing our AI to provide increasingly personalized and effective advice over time.
Why This Works When Everything Else Fails
Most career advice treats ADHD like a personality quirk. “Just be more organized!” “Try bullet journaling!” “Have you tried Pomodoro timers?”
That’s not how neurology works.
Your ADHD brain has:
- Dopamine dysfunction (rewards don’t feel rewarding)
- Executive function deficits (starting tasks feels impossible)
- Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (criticism feels catastrophic)
- Time blindness (deadlines sneak up on you)
JobCoffin.com is built around these realities, not against them. We build systems that work with your brain’s limitations, not against them.
The Bottom Line
Your ADHD isn’t the problem. Your Work Style blindspot is.
Once you know how your brain actually works, you stop trying to fit into jobs that were never built for you. You stop fighting yourself. You stop burning out every 6 months. You stop job-hopping because you’re bored.
You find work that uses your ADHD as fuel, not friction.
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Oliver Haughton is the creator of JobCoffin, the ADHD career platform that remembers your patterns forever. He has ADHD himself and built this system after watching too many brilliant people struggle with generic career advice that doesn’t work for ADHD brains.