Best jobs for me?

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I am a guy who loves being creative, loves writing, does best when I have a set routine, and has no college degree and no money or time to change that. I can do physical labor, but am happier in an office. I do best in quiet environments the farther away I am from other people, the better, usually. My current job is okay, but it's way too random for me to really be comfortable. My last job was taking customer service calls, and that stressed me out to the point of being sick. Before that, I did lawn care, and having to drive to a different unfamiliar city every day, and having to work with already broken equipment, was almost worse than taking calls. So I'd prefer to avoid things like that in the future.

Based on all this, can anyone list some possible jobs that might suit me well? I make $15.50/hr right now, so I would need to make at least that much in whatever you suggest. Thanks!

I would keep the present job if I were you. If you find it "okay," that's far better than most people find their jobs.

Yes, keep your job. "Okay" is pretty good for your circumstances.

I have a great job in my special interest, but I graduated with honors from very good schools and had to move all the way across the country.

As others have already said, if you have a tolerable job, then hang onto it.

That said, you might want to explore options through Vocational Rehabilitation. This is a free service and can provide career counseling, training, funding for some types of training, for people with disabilities. If you have autism, you should qualify. BR is tricky to work with, but if you persevere, you can get some useful information and sometimes useful services out of them.

With some minimal training, you could be, for example, a medical coder. You sit at a computer all day and input the medical codes for medical treatments, visits, etc. There are technical schools that can train you and there is financial aid available. It's not like college, more like high school. You would have to be able to work and go to school at the same time, but the time frame is very short for some of these technical jobs, some are just one year.

Without extra training, you could stock shelves in a grocery store at night. No customers and few others working. Same would go for a small hospital, janitorial. Anything at night has fewer people, less going on, and usually has a shift differential. But I don't think you would make as much hourly as you are making now.

That’s not dissimilar to what I do.

I’ve been doing data input for the past 38 years.

what's random about your job?

i have very little experience with work and maybe i'm just only too negative, but i feel unless you are an entrepreneur (which requires a lot of social skills) working with things you like and creativity is very frustrating. i would definitely prefer a more neutral, random type of job where you can feel clearly detached from it.

can't you manage to save a little while working to study something? it could work as building up a back up plan

No college degree and making $15.50/hr.? Sign me up!