miahbadsha: Which Jobs Require Little Interpersonal Interaction?

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Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 12:41 am?? ?Post subject: Which Jobs Require Little Interpersonal Interaction?

I need a job that doesn't require regular interpersonal contact with people, including co-workers. I had settled on technical writing, because I have done it freelance at a low-skill level, but my research shows that technical writers regularly have to interview co-workers in the company to get the information they need to write about. I can't deal with that long-term. I don't like being around people and have trouble parsing speech. I don't know if I could get all the information in writing, that seems like too large of an accommodation to ask for. I'm just about out of ideas. I need something that challenges me intellectually, otherwise I will get bored and frustrated, then hate my life or quit the job. I might be able to go to graduate school to get new job skills (I'm considering Statistics, Operations Research, or some type of Computational Math), but I need to think of something to do short term. I have a B.S. in Physics, familiarity with programming in a few languages, half a Computer Science B.S., good writing and and editing skills, good math skills, research skills, and I'm a fast learner. Any suggestions? _________________ No animal should be treated as property. Assume nothing. The truth is more important than your feelings.

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Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 1:01 am?? ?Post subject:

Cat Burglar? Safe Cracker? Counterfeiter? Forger? These are professions where lack of social contact is almost essential for a long and profitable career. _________________ ST: 07 / DX: 08 / EN: 04 / IN: 14 / ED: 09 / SO: 11 / PS: 00 / AQ: 38

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Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 1:06 am?? ?Post subject:

By the way, I used to know a woman in Houston who had a degree in Biology from the mid 70s and who had worked in a medical lab in Houston for two years. After two years, she was so tired of doing the exact same lab procedures over and over and over and over that she quit. What did she do instead? She washed windows. Not the ones high up on the skyscrapers but the ones at ground level and in many fancy houses. They didn't just soap the window and wash off the soap -- they polished every window until you could hardly see the glass at all. The pay was apparently pretty good. I visited her at her house one night. It was a lot nicer house than mine. Another friend of mine used to take care of swimming pools. The pay was okay, but too many of his clients were deadbeats and he gave up the business after a while because of that. He also washed windows with the above woman for quite a while. According to him, once you get a good reputation for being honest, many of the people in the expensive homes will seek you out.

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Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 3:13 am?? ?Post subject:

Writer/Novelist? You could probably forefit social interaction for days and still get paid, so long as you actually write the thing. It's what I plan to do xD. And it's flexible - you challenge yourself based on your own intelligence. Might be stressful near the deadline though. _________________ "Only those who do not fit in the world have the power to change it"