Nvlders, your job expericences

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Yeah... i'm wonder what kinda jobs nvlders are good? I've suffered NVLD for pretty much most of my life. I'm a young adult now and probably will have to start a professional career in the near future. People with NVLD.... please share your experiences. I'd like know were you functioned best and where you functioned worst. Also i'm interested if anyone has had any military experience.

P.S I have limited job experience. And i seem to do fine in simple manual and sorting stuff.

I'm an NVLDer with military experience.

Best area of functioning: anything involving words.

Worst area of functioning: everything else.

Best functioning: programmer
Worst functioning: speech pathologist

I don't recommend any therapist-type job, like speech therapy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, etc. I learned the information fine, and completed my Masters with a 3.90 GPA, but encountered many hurdles in the clinic setting that were evident even in grad school and only intensified afterwards, when I was repeatedly fired from jobs.

I found that I need a slow-paced job that is not deadline-focused, where the expectations and guidelines are clear, and I have a good supervisor. It needs to be a job where I can focus on one thing for a long time, uninterrupted, rather than constantly shifting from task to task. Minimal interaction with other people is also good.

I haven't found my career yet but I'll talk about my college career so far. For me I am very left-brained which means I excelled at English and writing so much that I ended up graduating with an English degree. For me, writing assignments were very easy and natural. I loved the English major because most assignments were all usually essays and projects and none of them were based on any tests. The assignments required me to be able to work on assignments at my own pace at home and allow me to use my critical thinking strengths to reply well to any assignments(from a blog entry to a 12 page literary analysis paper). My right side of the brain being much weaker meant I suffered from bad short term memory and struggled with most classes that were hands on and based on tests. I barely passed math and science (got D's in both of them) and I would spend hours and hours trying to study and memorize the tests, only to forget the information immediately after a few days. I would often be so frustrated when I'd see students not show up for lectures and only show up to classes on test days and end up getting an 80-90 score while I barely passed with a 68. So I have learned how to battle my NVLD by focusing on classes(and soon careers) that don't require extensive testing and short term memorization but instead require great vocabulary, verbal expression, critical thinking skills, and long term memory.

In the meantime, I work a fairly basic job as a merchandiser where I come into a store, build displays, fills shelves with our product, check and rotate back-stock, and leave for the next store. It's a self managing job and it's one I can work on my own with no boss over my shoulder. Needless to say if I ever had to work in fast-food, I would fail miserably because the fast pace and short-term memory skills required would over load me. Luckily for me, I was able to avoid them. For my career I hope to become a technical writer someday and I think that can tailor to my writing, long term memory strengths, and critical thinking skills. But to start a career I would probably have to do some administrative (without having to use phones).