i work in a tech position and have for awhile before finally getting my diagnosis   my doctor was hesitant at first about evaluating me because of my occupation she had the notion that because of the required attention to detail to work in my field that it would be unlikely i could have adhd i explained that a big problem can be caused by one small factor that could be located in a hundred places   i am good at corrective maintenance because while most people would mentally explore one cause at a time my mind would explore many possible causes at once and i would find the issue sooner  meanwhile i was horrible at planned scheduled maintenance because those processes include doing the same boring procedure dozens of times for hours on end i would forget the small steps constantly either by forgetting to do them or forgetting that i had done it at all and have to double back