> Applicants must meet minimum academic eligibility and satisfy English language proficiency requirements for entry into the ADAP program. Academic Eligibility

Year 12 HSC (minimum ATAR 50 or equivalent); or other equivalent qualifications such as:

    AQF Certificate III
    Certificate IV
    Diploma
    Advanced Diploma
    Bachelor or higher degree
    vocational experience
    bridging/preparatory courses  (UPPAP)
    para-professional, and
    other post-secondary qualifications

"You've got to make the back of the fence, that nobody will see, just as good looking as the front of the fence. Even though nobody will see it, you will know, and that will show that you're dedicated to making something perfect." — Paul Jobs

> And timeline urgency / time pressure tends to do well at putting me into deep flow state, whereas it can be hard for me to get into flow state for work otherwise.

As long as there's a tangible reason the deadline is urgent, then I feel the same way. If it's just an arbitrary demand then I don't respond like they'd hope. My brain knows when something is truly urgent and when it's not.

That said, I have no idea what else to do. Going back to school and attempting a degree program seems like kind of a crapshoot even if I could convince myself I'd succeed. All of that is very depressing, but on the other hand I'm actually quite happy to have spent all summer basically doing whatever the hell I want; wasn't that the promise of AI anyway?

Hard agree, especially the apparent 99% of AI boosters on HN who seem to basically only care about shipping arbitrary products as fast as possible and skipping the whole middle part where someone sweaty person is grinding through the details intimately, all day, and while they should be sleeping.

At my last place, it was a battle to convince the narcissistic idiot CTO and even one of our senior engineers (both in age and experience) that it was important to encrypt customer data before it transited through third-party cloud service providers. People don't—and aren't incentivized—to give the slightest shit about quality, security, you name it.

Sure, automating away things that would otherwise just be basically copy/pasted anyway have always been fine, but this is a very different scale.

It is interesting how people can differ in terms of disposition though.

Edit: I didn't mean to imply that one disposition is better or worse than another objectively, but rather that I subjectively find impatient, superficial, consumption-driven people extremely dull, which I also tend to associate with people who mostly care about the result. Additionally, I believe that this focus on the production of more and faster is a non-trivial contribution to producing things that have no longevity or are otherwise enshittified. The less we're involved in the intimate details of a thing, the less we're inclined to care, and the less it's even acceptable to care about quality.

Most of my interactions with people who don't have ADHD assume it's a sort of scatterbrained constant switching no matter what, and that if I just got a calendar and a to-do list it would fix all my problems. Those people normally can't imagine not being dopamine rewarded by their boring-ass office work or being on time or earning money. I need something that isn't an artificial abtract construct in order to not be bored to the point where I'll lose my job.

But I absolutely accept that everyone's somewhere diferent on the spectrum.