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Proving once again that there's a market for everything, one craiglist user posts this intriguing job offer, titled, "Watch Me to Make Sure That I Study For Law School":
I'm a first year law student but I've been having terrible concentration problems. I need someone to sit with me while I study and make sure that I'm studying. Otherwise I'll waste hours surfing the internet or just thinking about random things. You can be reading the newspaper or doing your own work while you do this, you just need to be sitting at a starbucks table or other location with me. You DO NOT NEED TO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT LAW SCHOOL to do this job.Now, while those of you who work from home may think you're qualified, Gothamist knows of another demorgraphic who would be really great at this job: Retired mothers or fathers - you know, Grade A nags who will bug you about whether you finished your homework or ask you how your grades are even though you've been working for two years. There was an article in the Times this past weekend about Columbia students studying at Starbucks; in our day, you would find Gothamist at the Hungarian Pastry Shop on Amsterdam and 110th. We'd be studying AND stalking - we're good at multitasking. [Via MeFi, via Rachelle]
I'll pay more for people that can tutor me in Civil Procedure, Contracts, or Torts.
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Perfect. What a perfect ad.
That guy has ADHD totally. He needs medication and a therapist or an ADD Coach. Trust me. He has ADD bigtime.
I got it, I know exactly what this guy is talking about.
Where do we apply for this job?
Yes, the person advertising probably has ADD and is not getting the right help or support for their condition. The job itself seems pretty funny, but the underlying condition isn't a laughing matter.
At a glance, it seems that you could have much bigger problems than "not being able to focus", but school life pretty much demands a consistent ability to focus nowadays - many intelligent students can fail out of school quite easily because not only is there virtually no help for this problem, but there's no tolerance for it, either.
Rachel - I like your recommendation, except I wish that an ADD coach wasn't half the cost of college itself. I cut corners and got a couple of tutors along the way - people who were flabbergasted to sit with me and not have to teach me anything.
It was funnier, though, when I got a B- in a difficult class based mostly on late or missing homework - but then tutored someone in that very same class the next semester who was initially struggling with the material, and they got an A+ in the end.
And no, I'm not lazy.