I’m looking for a new, second career.
I’d prefer one that requires a college degree, and tends to limit social contacts.
After all these years on one such job, I find that agreeable. I left the old one because of commuting issues.
I have a Liberal Arts degree. I do not wish to unload trucks, or be a janitor.
Your suggestions for job title searches would be helpful.
I spent much of my time working in electronics manufacturing, machine operator. Limited group of co-workers and we were yelled at for talking outside of things needed to get the job done. No chit-chat.
It suited me just fine. Probably not a career though, more of a job.
A lot of remote work jobs limit social contact. I understand they’re not synonymous, but there are in-office or in-plant jobs that don’t require social contact per se, yet require social contact merely because of where they’re located. The remote versions of those jobs might be what you’re looking for.
I’m a scientist and also program and have done a lot of computational fluid dynamics and statistics. Not what you’re looking for – but since the start of the pandemic I’ve done these from home and there’s been much less social contact simply for that reason. You could use the “seeking remote work” principle to similar end.
Translating languages is done mostly from home, with no social contacts. What languages do you know?
Of course, AI is making this more and more precarious.
I would think that any back-office type job, e.g. the mail room, would require little social interaction. Is it that you don’t want to interact with coworkers or you don’t want to interact with the public? We would need to know your actual skill set to point you in any particular direction. A Liberal Arts degree doesn’t tell us much.
ARC/GIS Software, Google Earth Pro Experience, General Cartographic Experience, Day-To-Day Library Experience, Windows, Excel, Audio/Visual Experience, Medical Terminology, Clerical/Administrative Experience, Photographic Equipment Maintenance Experience, Scheduling & Organizational Experience,GIS, Archiving, Medical Terminology, Office Clerk, Team Building
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You wrote Medical Terminology twice, so maybe you could become a Medical Transcriptionist. I think they mostly work from home, you can make decent money, and you can do it as a second job in your spare time.
“Medical transcription, also known as MT, is an allied health profession dealing with the process of transcribing voice-recorded medical reports that are dictated by physicians, nurses and other healthcare practitioners. Medical reports can be voice files, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material.”
You could be a church secretary. There’s not a lot of social interaction, although it’s pretty much mandatory that you have to be especially nice when someone calls or comes in.
Actually, being the administrative assistant in any one-person office pretty much assures solitude.
Growing up, my dad was a hotel manager. I always heard how the night auditors were invariably people who didn’t like to interact with others; their job, I gathered, was to count stuff (hence the auditing) and they also manned the front desk during the midnight hours when most everybody is asleep. I have no idea if that job still exists these days.
Lots of big renewable energy project going into construction phases now. See if you like any of these job searches :
Document Control or controller
Expeditor
billing or (billing analyst)
SmartPlant ( this is a 3-d design software that stores all information for the project - these jobs can be very high paying if you have a knack for 3-d visualization)
I work at a federal library, in interlibrary loans. I can do it entirely remotely. I don’t speak a full sentence to anyone most weeks. My position is “library tech.” Earnings and potential for advancement is limited but not nonexistent.