Good jobs for an introvert?

[Silvermoth]

My current job is starting to look a bit fragile so it might be a good idea to look for other jobs just in case something happens to my current one.

I'm sort of looking at social media management at the moment. I've heard that's pretty good?

 

[KevanG]

I'm kind of an introvert and I liked doing inbound customer service.

 

[ThePhantasm]

hermit

 

[DarkSentinel]

Strip club.

Just for the lulz.

 

[DeadPresident]

Serial killer.

 

[DarkSentinel]

Cereal killer.

 

[James]

A friend of mine, who is definitely an introvert, works for an online company called Kidz World as a chat moderator. I'm not sure what the pay is like, but she seems to pick up hours whenever she likes -for about six hours at a time- you can do other stuff at the same time, just make sure the young people don't get too rowdy.

Something like that might be good, you can work from home.

OR, alternatively, bungee jumping instructor.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Kev gave you some good advice. Inbound customer service is great, it lets you have the experience of talking to people without having to directly interact with them. More often than not you sit at your desk all day and rarely have to interact with the other employees if you don't want to. Pay is usually good as well. I've been in the sales and telemarketing game for a long time and just got a job doing customer service/account management for a good company with full benefits and everything

 

[Anita18]

Pretty much my entire family is introverted, and everyone works in technology. Both my parents were software engineers. My super-introverted husband is a game developer, who works from home because he hates being around people that much. I'm an introvert and I used to work in a lab, and now I'm a web designer/developer too.

Anything where you mostly work with a computer is pretty good for an introvert, basically speaking.

 

[PyroChamber]

I'm an introvert myself, some like to say I'm antisocial, but for some reason I always end in jobs involving being around people usually customer service. I would try being a librarian but I don't think that pays that well.

 

[pr0xyt0xin]

I think first you'd have to decide whether you want a job that will help you out of introversion, or one that you can remain introverted.

 

[hopefuldreamer]

Admin
Tech/computers
Factory work
Shelf stacking
Librarian
Animal care

Pretty much anything where pro active interaction with human beings is minimal.

I consider myself an introvert, but I think it's all situational.

I read a really good article that said that introverts don't dislike conversation, they just dislike forced conversation & awkward chit chat.

I very much feel that way. I've worked in pubs as a barmaid and loved it, but those pubs were full of 'locals' who I got to know well and so the conversation was on a friendship level.

My current job is at a national operations centre for a refrigeration engineering company, and I spend all day talking to our engineers, as well as sub contractors and management agents... and I love my job, it's rarely difficult.

However, when I worked in advertisement sales I was absolutely miserable. I hate being bad at my job, and I really wasn't good at it. We had targets to meet and I rarely met them. I would make the minimum amount of outbound calls I could (we had to get at least 3 sign ups a week to keep our job, but it was a ridiculously low amount) and I just couldn't get into it.

So basically, you never know until you try

 

[DA_Champion]

How old are you?

Academia might be a good choice. That's what I do.

 

[the last son]

Introvert here. I work as a truck driver. Lots of alone time and no boss over your shoulder. Hard work though.

 

[Dark Raven]

Introverted as well. But most of my jobs have tended to ones which require talking to others. And I personally prefer it that way too.

Even if I'm in a group meeting (not social), I don't really like to simply be in the background as a participant but would prefer to actually be leading the group. If I am just participating, I often tend to be the one speaking up more often and putting my views across, and if the person leading is really incompetent I try to find a way to steer it in another direction or take over if possible.

I do not like doing things like research, admin, data entry or something like programming (which I can't do anyway). If I do any introverted type of job, I would prefer it to be under my own autonomy and not as part of some bigger company where I'm stuck doing that kind of task.

In social settings, I would actually prefer to be the host of a party or meeting who gets to go round to meet everyone than to be someone who just shows up and blends into the background. That way I can feel I have an excuse to interact and approach others and get out of myself more, and people will just naturally accept that.

 

[SuperFerret]

Animal care

As someone who works in animal care, if you're looking to avoid contact with people, please remember that just about every animal you're going to come in contact with is somehow attached to an animal.

And frankly Silvermoth, I feel like you're using "I'm introverted" as some sort of a crutch here. Don't let that define you.

 

[Prison Mike]

Accounting...specifically tax. Best job for introverts IMO.

 

[KevanG]

Author or other type of writing as long as you can take some criticism.

 

[James]

Author or other type of writing as long as you can take some criticism.

What type of writing is there that doesn't require an author? t:

 

[KevanG]

I meant novels/short stories as opposed to writing articles or something.

 

[James]

I meant novels/short stories as opposed to writing articles or something.

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