Best Jobs/Careers For Aspies

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I've been thinking about what I want to do as a career and I'm thinking I either want to go into research/quantitative psychology or animal behavior. The problem with going into psychology as an Aspie is it is usually a social skills-oriented profession, which is why I want to stay away from clinical psychology or social work/therapy. That got me thinking, what are the best types of jobs/careers for Aspies? Engineering is an obvious one, but not everyone is interested in engineering. The "hard" sciences and mathematics are good too, as it involves a lot of data and knowledge of scientific principles.

Accounting

I like working night shift as a direct support professional. It's what I do now, and I've had jobs in it in the past as well.

That may not be the best way of finding an Aspie suitable job.

Employers have different cultures. Yet surprisingly similar job titles. It may be better to find a suitable employer first, and then figure out what you can do to work there.

Maybe organizational psychology too. It doesn't look interpersonal like the rest of psychology, it focuses on the big picture of how people function in a workplace, they don't have to manage anyone. From what I've picked up, it is data-driven, I don't know any organizational psychologists myself so I can only speculate so much. It pays really well too

I'm majoring in accounting.

Accounting - normally a quiet working environment, using black and white strategies, finding the bottom line. I love accounting.

Lighthouse keeper

Grave digger

Librarian
Professor
Tour Guide

Any 'data analysts?'

A data analyst can discern and highlight those often overlooked trends out of news content; that is separating "the signal from the noise" by reading between the lines (in a nutshell).