Lucrative Work For Those With An Aspie-type Temperament

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Currently I work full-time as a factoryhand with my main responsibility being assembling wheelbarrows. The job suits me pretty well, but being relatively low-paid (understandably since this is my first job and required no qualifications), and without much room for upward mobility, I think it would be smart to start examining other career paths for the future that will be more lucrative.

My preferences for a job are as follows:
- Indoors
- Working with things more so than people
- Relatively unrestricted with what I can do with my appearance
- Higher focus on exertion of my brain rather than my body

My most notable strengths are:
- Attention to detail
- Ability to analyse
- Problem-solving
- Pattern Recognition

With these traits and preferences in mind, do you know of any relatively lucrative jobs and industries that will align with the bulk of my inclinations? Better yet, have you got any experience working in such industries or positions? Thanks in advance

Have you gone to University?

Engineering jobs are lucrative but almost always require a four year degree.

At least. And it's a very difficult major.

Accounting

Telecommute

Yes, Engineering is hard. Which is why bean counters allow you to be different. Even weird. As long as you seem harmless and do your job.

Electrician

Carpenter

Computer stuff. CNC operator or programmer. CAD for product design.

Nuclear physicist

Anything that requires a technical skill that not everyone has, would be a good choice for your next career move.

I have two other things to mention. Since you feel this job suits you, though the pay is low, I advise you stay for a minimum of six months and actually, one to two years is better. That demonstrates stability, which employers like to see, because hiring anybody is a risk and they hope their investment in you will pay off.

The other thing is off topic. Could I possibly convince you not to use that red font? It is very hard on my eyes.

When I was 19, took Please Understand Me

Career personality test

It listed 20 jobs

All of them in physics and engineering

The easiest, civil engineer


Extroverts have a much easier time at jobs than introvert

Restaurant retail sales





Many jobs put "outgoing", "adaptable", "friendly" as skills

Outgoing is a Myers Briggs type, not a job skill

IT-security, there is a global shortage of skilled workers. I mean, there is plenty of paper pushing compliance people running around causing problems, but there are too few skilled analysts who are able to:

Detect intrusions
Analyse malware behavior
Do forensics work
Configure security devices
Do pentests
Build security tools
Make signatures for detection

...i.e. do actually stuff that matters.

What i hate about the business is the part about compliance: organizations get some sort of compliance statement or a certificate like ISO 270xx, then they believe that they are safe - which is BS, but they don't realize it before they get hacked. It happens again and again and again and again...

You get a new kind of understanding when you start looking at logs or packet captures and see all the s**t going on there vs the paper world where "nothing ever happens" as long as you have that paper.

If you can live with that...

Thanks for the responses.

When I was 19, took Please Understand Me

Career personality test

It listed 20 jobs

All of them in physics and engineering

The easiest, civil engineer


Extroverts have a much easier time at jobs than introvert

Restaurant retail sales





Many jobs put "outgoing", "adaptable", "friendly" as skills

Outgoing is a Myers Briggs type, not a job skill

Mathematician

If those are really your strengths.. work for the USPS in distribution, Custodial craft (janitorial, IT maintenance or Equip Maint)

Or Bookkeeping/Acctg
Paralegal
Inventory Control are all similar matches for your indoor criteria

Even though it's not the most stable or reliable, I do think working anywhere in film would be cool for anybody.