I know this is an old thread, but it is still something that applies to everyone I am assuming so I am going to comment anyways.
It took me a really long time to find a career that would suit my Avoidant tendencies. I didn't even know about AvPD until today, there is NOTHING about AvPD that doesn't fit my life. I live somewhere where job opportunities are of the few, and the ones that they do have are very broad roles so you can't just focus on one specific part of career as you can do in big cities. So my job isn't exactly perfect for me, but there is one aspect of it that I love and I think that many of you would probably love too. If I could literally just do this all day i would absolutely love my job, but I have coworkers and clients and all that fun stuff that even though I try really hard to be a people person I am 75% of the time very awkward and spend most of my time having anxiety about everyone hating me for it and everyone secretly wants me fired.
So the part of my job that is great is Transcription. So anyone who doesn't know what that is I will explain. People record themselves talking a dictate letters that I need to type up/format and sometimes I get some really great dictations that can be up to a half an hour long!! This actually excites me in a lot of ways because it takes my mind and focus off people and my anxiety. I just get to sit and type with headphones in. So I get to work by myself and if I could make a business out of it and hire my own receptionist that would be awesome. As far as I know in the states there are actually jobs where you can actually type/format your whole shift. The great thing about dictations is that they can tell you what to do but you don't have to converse with them!! If I do need to answer a question I can send an e-mail with the answer which is great. No anxiety to converse via e-mail because I can think long and hard about how I am going to answer without feeling the pressure and anxiety that you feel when you are on the spot.
So unfortunately there are no jobs here that you can strictly just do this so I end up also needing to be a receptionist which can be very difficult for me. Someone can tell me 10 million times to say a certain thing when people call and ask for something. Every single time I get nervous and don't do it. Part of it kind of requires me to lie, which I have so much anxiety about lying in person or over the phone because I don't want it to come up why I lied etc. So if someone asked for lets say their name is AB BC but that person technically doesn't work her I still have to transfer them to AB CB because he is worried he will lose a client if someone remembers his name wrong. Which makes sense but every time I am put on the spot I still say he doesn't work her and tell them who to call......So I get called into the office to be talked to about it and they tell me over and over what I am doing wrong as if I was never told before. If I were them I probably would fire me!
So if you live somewhere where you can strictly transcribe it's actually great for someone who can't handle human interaction. I worked in a call center before and that was just as bad. I would be too nice and honest with people and I would get in trouble for it but no one ever talks to be about transcription because I am a fast typer and good at formatting just about anything. The only problem is for people to keep you busy because as soon as you slow down and think that's when you start overthinking every conversation you have had in your life and awkward you sound and trying to prevent it for future interaction.
It would be cool if this career recommendation helps someone with AvPD that would be great