What is a good job for someone with severe social anxiety?!
Question: I don't have much work experience and I had to drop out of high school to get my GED because the anxiety was making me physically ill. I'm being treated for it though its not doing too much. I plan on becoming a medical transcriptionist so I can work at home until I conquer this problem, however, I need a job to pay for the schooling until then. Anyone have any suggestions on what kind of job I could do? Preferably something not like being a cashier because id be way too anxious to deal with that everyday.
Answers: I don't have much work experience and I had to drop out of high school to get my GED because the anxiety was making me physically ill. I'm being treated for it though its not doing too much. I plan on becoming a medical transcriptionist so I can work at home until I conquer this problem, however, I need a job to pay for the schooling until then. Anyone have any suggestions on what kind of job I could do? Preferably something not like being a cashier because id be way too anxious to deal with that everyday.
You could always try your hand at cooking. As a cook, which there is a line cook, a short order cook, a prep cook, etc...you only have to deal with certain familiar people. The other employees. If you work in a small place like a mom and pop restaurant it is even easier as the employee list is even shorter than in chain restaurants.
Why not try an internet job, such as proofing websites or things of this nature. Research is also a good job for those who don't like to leave their homes. You can research on the web or go to a library and lose yourself in the columns of books.
Many places have jobs that are "behind the scenes" so to speak. Call some up and ask if there are any jobs available that do not require contact with the general public. the worst that can happen is that they will say NO and you will have to cross that employer off of your list. A night janitor in some offices would be ideal to ask about.
If you could do medical billing/insurance from home, you may do well.
try working in a garage like goodyear, or ups, I use to work at ups and it is beautiful
no talking, no gossip, no obligation to be friendly or change your mood according to someone else's liking
just show up on time, and do your work, then go home and be comfortable
Librarian. Easy work hours and very low stress. It is a quiet environment and you're job description is pretty clear cut. You just organize stuff and put things back where they go.
How about some type of a delivery person. Like Fed-ex or UPS. You would be in a vehicle most of the time and not really dealing with the public. I have it to but luckily I have a job where I work from home.
Well, you've got a big problem with a lot of the available decent-paying jobs between those two items: being young and inexperienced, and then the social anxiety issue.
However, there's one job I can think of that someone that's having a hard time with the social aspect can do, that also fits your limitations of experience: late-night office cleaning. It may not pay much more than minimum wage, and I'd advise you not to think it's likely to be something you can do for a living until you retire, but everyone needs to get some job experience somehow, and the first suggestion (medical transcription) may not work out too well, at least in comparison, due to various issues such as having enough work to do. By contrast, if you work as a late-night janitor in large office buildings (or several smaller ones) you'll have less in the way of human contact to make, an more regular hours, too, and (I suspect) fairly little competition in the job market for such positions.
My first couple jobs with a regular paycheck (not counting a paper route) was doing janitorial work.
Do you not want to have to deal w/another person at all?? If so, you'll have to know some kind of skill or trade.(Do you know how to fix anything?) If you just don't want to have to socialize with people face to face, what about a phone job? You're probrably qualified to do telemarketing or collection calls. If that's still too much interaction, what about a custodial type of job? It usually only requires minimal interaction. You could also work at a grocery store- but on the night shift as a stocker. If you live in an area that has a factory any type of company that involves any type of assembly that would be perfect. There are tons of jobs out there that don't involved daily interaction with other people, just think outside the box.
working in a morgue should do it; you wont get into any arguments either