Best career for SPD?

I believe the negatives of modernity far offsets its benefits overall, lindi.

Isik wrote:I believe the negatives of modernity far offsets its benefits overall, lindi.

Fine. Nothing (terribly) wrong with idealizing primitivism. I thought that you're an anarcho-capitalist or some $#%^.

You think in 0s and in 1s lindi. You should also respect people no matter what they think. I do not judge you obviously as you have issues of your own that you are doing your best to fix, and I salute your determination. Keep up the good work.
We can now both agree to disagree don't you think?

Isik wrote:We can now both agree to disagree don't you think?

Let's do that. No hard feelings.

Strange as it sounds, I wonder if schizoids would be good shrinks.

I disagree with the assumption of "We already know that the person needs to be alone as much as possible. So that's at least a start."

It is not that the person needs to be isolated, it is that I think most are better off with small teams or partnerships that reduces the amount of random social interactions. As an SPD person myself, I have learned through trial/error in so many jobs that I cannot work with high volume social interaction jobs such as grocery store front desk/customer service desk, high school teacher with 35 students, any customer service phone work, general sales floor work such as at a Best Buy.

My best jobs have had minimal or incidental contact with the general public and are task/production oriented. The best jobs have been driving jobs such as a repossession agent "spotter," ( I drove around the city all day using a tablet and app looking up addresses to find vehicles on repo list and call in tow truck driver), transport driver for Medicaid patients, (simple pick up/drop off work, minimal conversation with most patients, some engaging topics once in a while), and parking enforcement where my primary interaction is myself checking parking meters through a handheld device, issuing warnings or citations as needed. The social element is narrow, people asking about parking rules, times, etc, or looking for help to find stores.

In my personal experience, I have found that I am TOTALLY misread as unfriendly and rude when in fact I have no such feelings or intentions. I just don't follow social cues and customary etiquette very well. For example, I really hate to say "good morning" and feel like it is a torturous effort to say it and it will come out as ingenuine, fake, or forced. I get by with "hey" or just quickly parrot back "..morning." and then mentally cringe for having to force even that out.

Career? Anything where you can be delivered a package of work to do; do that work; then send off the finished product. Minimal human interaction required. And example would be a freelance programmer.

i did not enjoy freelance work. its a revolving door of brown nosing new potential clients and maintaining relationships with old ones. like, daily. there were so many cheapskates trying to get away with highway robbery, all the while telling me they need more time and effort from me with no additional pay. plus there is no job security. could be flat on your ass at a moment's notice despite promises of a permanent position being whispered in your year the past six months. to me, it was worst than having a minimum wage job selling hot dogs to idiots, with a low functioning sociopathic retard as a boss.

jobs i've done that i think fit perfectly

night shift security guard: specially in places like schools, malls, remote government locations (power plants etc)

truck driving: not bad, but long hours. truck driver are surprisingly social & very friendly

contract courier: medical documents/supplies, medical patients, amazon prime etc. i love driving, you can just zone out, listen to music & do your thing, much more stable than Uber/Lyft or Doordash type stuff

night shift warehouse handler: i was the only product picker on my floor, lots of time to play on my phone, work at my pace with little to no supervision

IT: remote work is the best, but help desk stuff ain't bad

data entry: remote from home, always a win

artist: if you like doing something artistic there's probably nothing better. set your own hours and work as much or as little as you want in a given day, live frugally of course. or any self employment with demand where you can work how you want

pretty much anything night shift or remote/working from home

Callister wrote:[…] It is not that the person needs to be isolated, it is that I think most are better off with small teams or partnerships that reduces the amount of random social interactions.

Before Covid-19 I worked in a small team with random social interactions as well. Now we worked separately. The amount of interactions with people outside the team was managed mostly by my colleagues, before the pandemic and is now managed by me alone. But I enjoy the latter. For the team wanted to socialize, whereas the others just came to get a problem solved.