annie_muss

I am currently swamped with projects. I can't point to any particular project and say "This one was to much" but all of them combined have got me totally overwhelmed.

Even though I know I have a tendency to take on too much, I still find myself in this situation repeatedly. I think back to 6 months ago when I was agreeing to do some of these projects and I remember my thought process: 'I better be careful not to take on too much. I better make estimates extremely conservative.'

Nevertheless I find myself having far too much to do and not enough time to do it in.

What techniques do you have for not taking on too much? How do I get to the magical state of being able to underpromise and overdeliver?

I have a mental disability. It affected my career in the past but since getting diagnosed and treated for it a few years ago my career has improved significantly and I have been able to put in consistent work.

My disability is not obvious or visible. Up until now I have only told close family.

Recently, I have been considering job hunting to try to improve my salary. I currently make around 50k USD. I'm based in Japan so this salary is not terribly low but also not that high.

In Japan, companies have a requirement to hire a certain percentage of disabled people. Looking at the Google recruitment site I can see they have a program (gReach) specifically for registered disabled people.

Is it a good idea to disclose my disability during the application process? On one hand I feel like it might encourage companies to interview/hire me to fill their quota. On the other hand I worry that companies may be prejudiced against disabled people and use it to disqualify my application.