Good Paying, Socially Limited, Low Stress Jobs?

You spend more than half your waking life at work. Don't base your choice on what's the easiest on your anxiety. Base it on what's interesting to you. Stretch outside your comfort zone, or you're going to be socially avoidant as well as anxious your whole life.

Besides, all those jobs sound boring.

- Medical Transcriptionist
- Security Guard
- Janitor
- Data Entry
- Computer Programmer
- Merchansdiser
- Radiologist
- Truck driver

*yawn*

depends on what you want to do

If you are comfortable making decent, not great money, there are a lot of jobs where you don't have to "interact" with people all the time.

But the truth is, unless you want to keep jumping from one deadend job that pays avg to another, you will need to interact.

As you get older, jobs are more about Networking skills than actual skills. Yeah you might need to know what your're doing, but the last few years in most fields, there are tons of people with the same skills as you going for the same job.

In reality every job is a sales job.

Because if you can't sell yourself at an interview, you won't get the job.
But if you know so and so from ABC company who knows the hiring manager or somebody else at XYZ company, your chances become a lot better at getting hired.

And once you get a job, it's nice to sit in a cubicle or wherever you sit or stand and not interact with people that much, but as time goes on, either your position will be eliminated or you will be replaced by younger eager and less paid talent.

Most people don't get a job at 22 and retire at 62 for the same company these days.

It's about communicating , interacting, and networking.

Without it, it's hard to find a good professional career. It doesn't matter if it's white collar or blue collar.

The truth is, if you want to make good money, your going to have to learn how to interact with others on a daily basis. You don't have to become an extrovert, but hiding all the time only hurts your career.

it sucks

But it's the way it is.

It's who you know more than what you know.

I know how you feel because I lost a job, for various reasons, job cuts, dept cuts, new management, etc but one of those reasons was because of SA. It might not have been the main one, but over time, other opportunities were passed over because I wasn't the social butterfly.

ANd it's tough getting real references if your not much of a social person.
Yeah you might do good work and work hard, but people really don't know you and then looking for that next job is real hard when you have nobody in your field from the last job to call and your references are more your close friends and family then former co-workers.

For one job, I had to fill out a packet with job history, background history, and location history etc and for some of the info it was hard because,
"who knew you?" at some place I lived for like six months 8 years past.
I didn't really know anybody there and situations like that came up again and again and it was hard answering later on , "why i didn't answer certain things correctly."

People don't want to hear, "because I didn't talk to anybody when I lived there."