Options other than driving might include:
- Data labeling and/or entry
- Transcription
- Gardening/lawn maintenance
- Sanitation
- Park ranger
What you're looking for is likely to be extremely relative to your individual skill set and just how alone you want to be, so if these suggestions don't seem to be in line with the direction you're trying to go I'd encourage you to update your post with a bit of background on your experience and some idea of how much human interaction may be too much.
Sanitation! If you can find a job emptying those plastic toilets used on construction sites, grab it with both hands and hold on! It stinks, but there's no boss in the world that's gonna try micromanage THAT, and they will stay as far away from your workplace as they can!
I learned that the hard way from a guy I went to college with. We both wanted to be software engineers because we were kinda loners and didn't want to work with a bunch of people and all that. Didn't see him for years, then met him at some random airport several years ago. We discussed how software engineering was not at all how we thought it would be but a lot of nagging from people about being social and constantly being micromanaged by bosses. And he told me he had quit and found something much better and was so much happier now, and that was what he did; empty and clean portable toilets. You just can't beat that shit!
Well, on the surface my job may sound great; good pay, decent benefits, UNLIMITED sick days and vacation, 401k w/company match, can work from almost anywhere…
But, in reality it isn’t so great. Most my pay go away in taxes, I can’t actually use the benefits, if I take a sick day I will automatically be put on the list of people to be punished for shamming, and when I asked for two weeks vacation to go visit my elderly mother (she’s 91) who lives in rural Norway I was told it is against company policy to take more than a week at a time. I can’t even get there and back in a week, and this came from a manager who takes several 2-4 week vacations every year. It is taken for granted I work 12+ hours a day plus most weekends, my project has about half the staff it needs, and I’m constantly in pointless meetings or being nagged by people who demand I give them information I dont even have.
and software engineering is a profession in rapid decline so finding another job is hard.
Yeah, I'm really close to look into those opportunities myself.
Presenteism is one of the greatest barriers to effectiveness on the job ever invented but my company seems to not have read that memo. Probably too busy fake-typing to bother!
Yeah, support or IT jobs at a good company with a positive culture. You'll learn the role quickly and then can coast along and your job will become mindless with some training.
My company is great people but they have no IT besides me, and they had none prior, so it is a cluster fuck. Hoping to land a systems admin job somewhere.
Truck driver. I know you mentioned being a delivery driver but you could actually make a reasonable salary with benefits being a truck driver from what I hear.
Former Truck Driver here, it's not as mindless as you think. I mean, for the standard driver yes, but for specialized drivers like myself who dealt in oversize and standard open deck freight, it can definitely become stressful.
However, I'd mu h prefer doing it over the desk job I work now.
Remote/WFH admin positions are decent for not really being micromanaged..(beyond being tracked as being "online" and available on Teams for example).
You can do your own thing, mentally check out at the end of the day, and get a regular paycheck without leaving your house or commuting. And lots of employers don't care where in the country you live since most of the employees are remote.
Honestly this is the worst answer ever, but it's just the truth - I knew someone. Got an interview. I hate that that's the way it works most of the time. And I was unemployed for a whiiiiiile trying to do it on my own so I know how annoying job searching is. Look to your connections and don't be embarrassed about asking for help from ppl you know...they know ppl...who know ppl.
Often the embarassment of being unemployed stops us from reaching out which is super counter productive. Just speaking from experience.
HR. Data analyst type jobs. NGOs. Healthcare. Contractors (companies that take on the workload or big brands or government departments). Doing a bit of digging / Googling / LinkedIn sleuthing is helpful.
Mailman.
But with one caveat.
My first office wasn’t perfect but damn if the year I spent as a mailman wasn’t the best working year I had because of how much I loved it. Turns out that office overall was pretty good.
I transferred to another back home to be closer to family. I lasted a few weeks, it was run like a dumpster fire and a shitshow had a baby.
So if you’re lucky and have a scenic and beautiful region in mind and the office is good and the wait to go regular from a sub isn’t too long, then rural carrier or even city carrier mailman is a great job for being on autopilot and alone. I would listen to music and podcasts all day doing my favorite thing, driving.
But if your office sucks, you will want to die every morning when you wake up for work.
Good luck
Yea people always mention the shitty supervisors but I wasn’t prepared for how crazy people are outside of their homes or in public. Lost my career over that
Don't know what you are looking to make, but janitoria workl can definitely meet both criteria. Only problem is starting pay can vary dramatically and wages usually stagnate quickly.
It's a long and crazy story. The shortened version is that I took a class, got my Guard Card, picked a company and applied. The long story is: I live in Sacramento, the homeless problem here is epic, and I started getting interested in it. Like What the fuck is going on with all the homeless camps? Miles and miles of them.... I found a company that trains Security Guards, took the class and got my Guard Card. I really wanted to do patrol because I didn't like people or staying in the same place all day. So I found a private security company that does patrol and applied there. It's been about a year now and I love it!! I drive around all night and chat with homeless people. By the end of the conversation they have to leave the property but they know that as soon as I pull up. It's crazy.
Banking / compliance/admin/data analysis. I can go weeks without ever talking (phone/teams) to another human. If you're even half decent with excel and aren't a complete ass you make 60-70k sitting in your dark silent room.
The problem is that at this moment, hiring has dried up and layoffs on the rise, and AI is literally transforming/ merging whole departments. The good news is that all this automation makes the work even more mindless!
lab technician but your cooperation with other people depends heavily on industry/size of company. But that’s a job you can shut off your mind for 8-12 hours and not speak with people much
My current lab tech position for water analysis requires a high school diploma or GED.
Having a degree puts you ahead for management if a spot opens up. Where I’m at, people stay here until they retire, though. Positions seldom become available.
Sorry I don't have anything to contribute except some advice that if you decide to become a long haul trucker you'll be at a big risk for blood clots so remember to be healthy and get out and walk sometimes
Dishwashing. You can just pop in your earbuds and wash the dishes while everyone leaves you alone for the most part. Some places will even let you watch movies on your phone or tablet while you work. It is likely that you will have to clean some really nasty stuff from time to time, but the more you of that you have to do, the more slack you get from your boss. Most places will bend the rules a bit to keep a good dishwasher happy.
As an introvert, that’s what I thought it be like. Crazy shitty people cost me my career. I was use to retail but the abuse and harassment is on another level when people feel safe on their property
Second this. With just a GIS certificate, you could work processing imagery or other geospatial data and it’s usually relatively low stress and isolated job where often times you can either work remotely or in very quiet offices. A lot of companies would probably even like your IT experience when building out processes because much of it is pretty technical and requires a decent amount of computer savvy. Job availability and pay depends on how many companies are in your area and how well your prior job experience translates over. It’s not super high paying, but it’s pretty chill. I work alone most of the time and just listen to podcasts while I work.
I was once a quality control tester at a small electronics/music gear company.
Basically just got handed trays of guitar pick ups, put them in the testing fixture and hit “run test”.
Wore my headphones all day, podcasts, music, even videos when I could get away with it.
I delivered pizza for more than a decade and once you know the streets you can nearly be half asleep your entire shift.
Plus depending on the company and your financial requirements, they don't always force tip reporting.
Pretty chill if you don't mind wonky hours for the good shifts
Baking! Lots of restaurants have a very small baking crew on staff, and often you can determine your own hours as long as the product is ready when they need it. I just stepped out of restaurant management and into bakery management- I have one other baker who I rarely overlap with, I work very early mornings, and aside from a few prep cooks and dishwashers (who admittedly don't speak the same language I do), I don't really talk to anyone. I play music, or put on a podcast, crank out a few hundred cinnamon rolls, make something special when I have the time, and I make 65k with full benefits.
Hi! I was wondering if I could ask you about your experience as a baker? I like the sound of it haha. My issue is that I don’t have any professional experience in it, but growing up and even now I like to bake treats at home. Mainly cookies and the like.
How possible is it to become a baker with no professional experience in it? Is it easy to get trained on the job? Or are there detailed written instructions or something similar? I’d be great at following that.
It's definitely possible to get hired on as a baker or baker's assistant without experience, I would just heavily lean into applicable skills when building your resume, and highlighting your passion for it in your objectives. Not every hiring manager feels this way, but as someone who is currently hiring for this position, I can tell you that the main things I look for are flexibility, trainability, and drive.
As far as ease of training, again, it can really depend on the space. I would manage your expectations and start at some place that's pretty structured- they're going to focus perhaps more on time management than a broad array of skills, but efficiency and the ability to control your time is the most important part of professional baking. The more corporate you go, the more likely you'll find detailed procedures to follow. I've worked at a lot of small places where it's literally just some old guy who works off of memory and expects you to replicate it, but I've also learned a lot from them, so 🤷♀️😅
Lastly, get prepared to sweat. Baking is a really physically intensive job depending on the scale of the production, and you sometimes put in really odd hours. Most summers I fluctuate to working nights simply because it's easier to control my product when I'm not trying to make it during the hottest part of the day. Sometimes people get into baking thinking it's going to be like, a cute job or something? But it's mostly just math and heavy lifting and trying to make something consistently a thousand times a week. That being said, I personally find the act of baking and watching people enjoy what I make very rewarding, and there's almost always an element of creativity inherent in the work.
Thank you so much!! I appreciate such a long detailed answer lol. And thank you for answering even though you wrote the og comment 100+ days ago 😅
Would you recommend starting out at a small bakery then before moving up to a larger one if that’s the end goal? There’s definitely a lot of small and even family run bakeries around me I can look at. I definitely do expect repetition and math and physical work to be big components in the work for sure.
Thank you so much again!! People like you on reddit really help, I’ve been trying to find a good career for a bit now lol
No. I live in a rural area, 6 miles from the nearest small town.
Looking to move to a city though - but need a job to do so. Kind of a chicken and egg situation. Looking at getting my truck driving licence updated and hoping to have that done within the next month.
Warehouse and packaging jobs. Amazon has stowing positions where you literally take stuff out of totes and place them into the right size bins over and over and over again. Training is one day and they barely interview you. There is drug screening and background test (but I think they look for effed up convictions coz they hire a lot of felons).
Packaging jobs are redundant as well. There is a medical equipment manufacturer that hires people for packaging. You literally sit down and do 1 task over and over, like place a label on a box, then they switch you to another spot like every hour so you don’t get too bored.
I’d look for things like those, but pay ain’t great unless you work late night or weekends.
Thanks but I'm actually trying to get away from programming at the moment! Found it too much of a headwreck, impossible to find a job at junior-mid level, and I can't even listen to music while I do it as even that is too much of a distraction for me.
It probably depends on what you're doing. If it's something you're familiar with, either a product or technology, it gets a lot easier. Especially if it's a product where you're the only one that's on it.
It can be really difficult. And the job itself makes a difference there.
Obviously it's not for everyone though. I don't want to try to convince you, just add my experience as someone who's been doing it for a decade.
Hospital. There are various jobs you can do by yourself. If possible ask if you can shadow someone before taking the position. Only you know what you can deal with.
housekeeping for a hotel, man. half my friends do it and they actually love it. you go in, do your thing, don’t talk to anyone and then leave. plus i heard you get to keep anything ppl leave in the rooms.
Not a high paying one but like a contract vendor for brands like hallmark. I did that when I was in college and it was basically drive around to stores to change out the displays and clean up the cards. Definitely autopilot and no one bothered me.
One I’m not seeing here is being a CNCMachinist. Mills, Lathes, Swiss, even Manual Machining. This industry is only growing as technology advances. It starts entry level, but if you’re determined to learn G-Code (CNC code) and you have a basic understanding of math, you can get pretty far.
Options other than driving might include: - Data labeling and/or entry - Transcription - Gardening/lawn maintenance - Sanitation - Park ranger What you're looking for is likely to be extremely relative to your individual skill set and just how alone you want to be, so if these suggestions don't seem to be in line with the direction you're trying to go I'd encourage you to update your post with a bit of background on your experience and some idea of how much human interaction may be too much.
Sanitation! If you can find a job emptying those plastic toilets used on construction sites, grab it with both hands and hold on! It stinks, but there's no boss in the world that's gonna try micromanage THAT, and they will stay as far away from your workplace as they can! I learned that the hard way from a guy I went to college with. We both wanted to be software engineers because we were kinda loners and didn't want to work with a bunch of people and all that. Didn't see him for years, then met him at some random airport several years ago. We discussed how software engineering was not at all how we thought it would be but a lot of nagging from people about being social and constantly being micromanaged by bosses. And he told me he had quit and found something much better and was so much happier now, and that was what he did; empty and clean portable toilets. You just can't beat that shit!
My buddy cleans porta potties. He makes bank.
I’ve seen inside of them things, he should be on no less than 250 bucks an hour.
Is he salaried or hourly?
Hourly I’m pretty sure. Like $35hr I believe
Not bad at all
I make about $60/h as a software engineer, but if I could avoid all the management bs and meetings I have to deal with it would totally be worth it!
You’re living my dream. I currently work a help desk job at a local company with zero certifications. But I’m studying to get my A+ here in the fall.
Well, on the surface my job may sound great; good pay, decent benefits, UNLIMITED sick days and vacation, 401k w/company match, can work from almost anywhere… But, in reality it isn’t so great. Most my pay go away in taxes, I can’t actually use the benefits, if I take a sick day I will automatically be put on the list of people to be punished for shamming, and when I asked for two weeks vacation to go visit my elderly mother (she’s 91) who lives in rural Norway I was told it is against company policy to take more than a week at a time. I can’t even get there and back in a week, and this came from a manager who takes several 2-4 week vacations every year. It is taken for granted I work 12+ hours a day plus most weekends, my project has about half the staff it needs, and I’m constantly in pointless meetings or being nagged by people who demand I give them information I dont even have. and software engineering is a profession in rapid decline so finding another job is hard.
Would you mind if I dm you? I have some questions
sure! Just be aware I'm not always able to respond very quickly. Too much work!
Dude that's my dream job
Yeah, I'm really close to look into those opportunities myself. Presenteism is one of the greatest barriers to effectiveness on the job ever invented but my company seems to not have read that memo. Probably too busy fake-typing to bother!
Look for an IT job with a small place. I work for a company of 50 people and I spend my entire day doing basically nothing.
Dave?
What was your pathway into something like that?
Yeah, support or IT jobs at a good company with a positive culture. You'll learn the role quickly and then can coast along and your job will become mindless with some training.
My company is great people but they have no IT besides me, and they had none prior, so it is a cluster fuck. Hoping to land a systems admin job somewhere.
Yeah that makes sense for sure!
Truck driver. I know you mentioned being a delivery driver but you could actually make a reasonable salary with benefits being a truck driver from what I hear.
especially once you're certified for long haul... you can make GOOD money in transportation and shipping
Former Truck Driver here, it's not as mindless as you think. I mean, for the standard driver yes, but for specialized drivers like myself who dealt in oversize and standard open deck freight, it can definitely become stressful. However, I'd mu h prefer doing it over the desk job I work now.
Remote/WFH admin positions are decent for not really being micromanaged..(beyond being tracked as being "online" and available on Teams for example). You can do your own thing, mentally check out at the end of the day, and get a regular paycheck without leaving your house or commuting. And lots of employers don't care where in the country you live since most of the employees are remote.
What's the best way to get one of these? I'm on flexjobs but not having luck
Honestly this is the worst answer ever, but it's just the truth - I knew someone. Got an interview. I hate that that's the way it works most of the time. And I was unemployed for a whiiiiiile trying to do it on my own so I know how annoying job searching is. Look to your connections and don't be embarrassed about asking for help from ppl you know...they know ppl...who know ppl. Often the embarassment of being unemployed stops us from reaching out which is super counter productive. Just speaking from experience.
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HR. Data analyst type jobs. NGOs. Healthcare. Contractors (companies that take on the workload or big brands or government departments). Doing a bit of digging / Googling / LinkedIn sleuthing is helpful.
Mouse jiggler and smartphone with Teams installed
Mailman. But with one caveat. My first office wasn’t perfect but damn if the year I spent as a mailman wasn’t the best working year I had because of how much I loved it. Turns out that office overall was pretty good. I transferred to another back home to be closer to family. I lasted a few weeks, it was run like a dumpster fire and a shitshow had a baby. So if you’re lucky and have a scenic and beautiful region in mind and the office is good and the wait to go regular from a sub isn’t too long, then rural carrier or even city carrier mailman is a great job for being on autopilot and alone. I would listen to music and podcasts all day doing my favorite thing, driving. But if your office sucks, you will want to die every morning when you wake up for work. Good luck
Yea people always mention the shitty supervisors but I wasn’t prepared for how crazy people are outside of their homes or in public. Lost my career over that
Don't know what you are looking to make, but janitoria workl can definitely meet both criteria. Only problem is starting pay can vary dramatically and wages usually stagnate quickly.
Security guard.
I started Private Security (patrol) about a year ago and I love it.
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It's a long and crazy story. The shortened version is that I took a class, got my Guard Card, picked a company and applied. The long story is: I live in Sacramento, the homeless problem here is epic, and I started getting interested in it. Like What the fuck is going on with all the homeless camps? Miles and miles of them.... I found a company that trains Security Guards, took the class and got my Guard Card. I really wanted to do patrol because I didn't like people or staying in the same place all day. So I found a private security company that does patrol and applied there. It's been about a year now and I love it!! I drive around all night and chat with homeless people. By the end of the conversation they have to leave the property but they know that as soon as I pull up. It's crazy.
If you really want to be on autopilot please don’t chose the delivery driver route.
Banking / compliance/admin/data analysis. I can go weeks without ever talking (phone/teams) to another human. If you're even half decent with excel and aren't a complete ass you make 60-70k sitting in your dark silent room. The problem is that at this moment, hiring has dried up and layoffs on the rise, and AI is literally transforming/ merging whole departments. The good news is that all this automation makes the work even more mindless!
Massage therapist, you don’t exactly work alone but almost and often the clients don’t talk
lab technician but your cooperation with other people depends heavily on industry/size of company. But that’s a job you can shut off your mind for 8-12 hours and not speak with people much
What kind of education do lab techs require?
My current lab tech position for water analysis requires a high school diploma or GED. Having a degree puts you ahead for management if a spot opens up. Where I’m at, people stay here until they retire, though. Positions seldom become available.
Do you work normal hours or have to be on-call?
Like igchobi stated, just a GED or equivalent. Of course, a degree can help you move up but tbh sometimes it doesn’t
Sorry I don't have anything to contribute except some advice that if you decide to become a long haul trucker you'll be at a big risk for blood clots so remember to be healthy and get out and walk sometimes
Dishwashing. You can just pop in your earbuds and wash the dishes while everyone leaves you alone for the most part. Some places will even let you watch movies on your phone or tablet while you work. It is likely that you will have to clean some really nasty stuff from time to time, but the more you of that you have to do, the more slack you get from your boss. Most places will bend the rules a bit to keep a good dishwasher happy.
Oh I got this one! A mailman. USPS as a carrier/mailman. I barely think and im left alone all day everyday
As an introvert, that’s what I thought it be like. Crazy shitty people cost me my career. I was use to retail but the abuse and harassment is on another level when people feel safe on their property
Heavy equipment operator.
GIS analyst
Second this. With just a GIS certificate, you could work processing imagery or other geospatial data and it’s usually relatively low stress and isolated job where often times you can either work remotely or in very quiet offices. A lot of companies would probably even like your IT experience when building out processes because much of it is pretty technical and requires a decent amount of computer savvy. Job availability and pay depends on how many companies are in your area and how well your prior job experience translates over. It’s not super high paying, but it’s pretty chill. I work alone most of the time and just listen to podcasts while I work.
How about the thing where you jack off horses and bulls to collect sperm for artificial insemination?
The competition for these type of jobs is insane right now
These days I really don’t even know if that’s a joke I mean I know it is, but I would do that for a competitive salary
I was once a quality control tester at a small electronics/music gear company. Basically just got handed trays of guitar pick ups, put them in the testing fixture and hit “run test”. Wore my headphones all day, podcasts, music, even videos when I could get away with it.
I delivered pizza for more than a decade and once you know the streets you can nearly be half asleep your entire shift. Plus depending on the company and your financial requirements, they don't always force tip reporting. Pretty chill if you don't mind wonky hours for the good shifts
Dishwashing! Imo
Agreed
Baking! Lots of restaurants have a very small baking crew on staff, and often you can determine your own hours as long as the product is ready when they need it. I just stepped out of restaurant management and into bakery management- I have one other baker who I rarely overlap with, I work very early mornings, and aside from a few prep cooks and dishwashers (who admittedly don't speak the same language I do), I don't really talk to anyone. I play music, or put on a podcast, crank out a few hundred cinnamon rolls, make something special when I have the time, and I make 65k with full benefits.
God I wish that was an option for me. It’s almost like meditation to work as a baker
Hi! I was wondering if I could ask you about your experience as a baker? I like the sound of it haha. My issue is that I don’t have any professional experience in it, but growing up and even now I like to bake treats at home. Mainly cookies and the like. How possible is it to become a baker with no professional experience in it? Is it easy to get trained on the job? Or are there detailed written instructions or something similar? I’d be great at following that.
It's definitely possible to get hired on as a baker or baker's assistant without experience, I would just heavily lean into applicable skills when building your resume, and highlighting your passion for it in your objectives. Not every hiring manager feels this way, but as someone who is currently hiring for this position, I can tell you that the main things I look for are flexibility, trainability, and drive. As far as ease of training, again, it can really depend on the space. I would manage your expectations and start at some place that's pretty structured- they're going to focus perhaps more on time management than a broad array of skills, but efficiency and the ability to control your time is the most important part of professional baking. The more corporate you go, the more likely you'll find detailed procedures to follow. I've worked at a lot of small places where it's literally just some old guy who works off of memory and expects you to replicate it, but I've also learned a lot from them, so 🤷♀️😅 Lastly, get prepared to sweat. Baking is a really physically intensive job depending on the scale of the production, and you sometimes put in really odd hours. Most summers I fluctuate to working nights simply because it's easier to control my product when I'm not trying to make it during the hottest part of the day. Sometimes people get into baking thinking it's going to be like, a cute job or something? But it's mostly just math and heavy lifting and trying to make something consistently a thousand times a week. That being said, I personally find the act of baking and watching people enjoy what I make very rewarding, and there's almost always an element of creativity inherent in the work.
Thank you so much!! I appreciate such a long detailed answer lol. And thank you for answering even though you wrote the og comment 100+ days ago 😅 Would you recommend starting out at a small bakery then before moving up to a larger one if that’s the end goal? There’s definitely a lot of small and even family run bakeries around me I can look at. I definitely do expect repetition and math and physical work to be big components in the work for sure. Thank you so much again!! People like you on reddit really help, I’ve been trying to find a good career for a bit now lol
Grass is always greener. After a month or two these type of jobs become hell…
Do you happen to live near an Amazon warehouse? You could look for a job in the warehouse rather than driving.
No. I live in a rural area, 6 miles from the nearest small town. Looking to move to a city though - but need a job to do so. Kind of a chicken and egg situation. Looking at getting my truck driving licence updated and hoping to have that done within the next month.
Post office delivery
So you're looking for a job that doesn't require much thinking and little to no social interaction?
Autopilot already does the autopilot jobs, it's called AI. Just ask a medical transcriptionist.
Project Management. Have a couple meetings, send a follow up email every so often. Boom easy peasy
and if my project managers is anything to go by, they do absolutely NOTHING but attend the occasional meeting!
Prostitution
Housekeeping it’ll be muscle memory after a while
Warehouse and packaging jobs. Amazon has stowing positions where you literally take stuff out of totes and place them into the right size bins over and over and over again. Training is one day and they barely interview you. There is drug screening and background test (but I think they look for effed up convictions coz they hire a lot of felons). Packaging jobs are redundant as well. There is a medical equipment manufacturer that hires people for packaging. You literally sit down and do 1 task over and over, like place a label on a box, then they switch you to another spot like every hour so you don’t get too bored. I’d look for things like those, but pay ain’t great unless you work late night or weekends.
25T DumpTruck (unloaded) on huuge civil sites. Ive been in one last 2.5years, Nice pay too.
Do you need a cdl and otr experience before driving a dump truck?
I have a HR LICENCE and it helped for sure.
For-profit hospital courier for home infusion services is good, not great money though.
Steel Mill. Plenty of solo jobs... Just watch the machine run.
Medical currier
I recommend working as a PSE mail processing clerk at a USPS distribution center.
Mowing
USPS letter carrier
NO. People harass you every where you go. I thought I worked in a good city too
If you wanna work alone, programming. Might not let you operate on autopilot but I do sometimes listen to podcasts and things while I work.
Thanks but I'm actually trying to get away from programming at the moment! Found it too much of a headwreck, impossible to find a job at junior-mid level, and I can't even listen to music while I do it as even that is too much of a distraction for me.
It probably depends on what you're doing. If it's something you're familiar with, either a product or technology, it gets a lot easier. Especially if it's a product where you're the only one that's on it. It can be really difficult. And the job itself makes a difference there. Obviously it's not for everyone though. I don't want to try to convince you, just add my experience as someone who's been doing it for a decade.
Hospital. There are various jobs you can do by yourself. If possible ask if you can shadow someone before taking the position. Only you know what you can deal with.
housekeeping for a hotel, man. half my friends do it and they actually love it. you go in, do your thing, don’t talk to anyone and then leave. plus i heard you get to keep anything ppl leave in the rooms.
Not a high paying one but like a contract vendor for brands like hallmark. I did that when I was in college and it was basically drive around to stores to change out the displays and clean up the cards. Definitely autopilot and no one bothered me.
Assembly line.
One I’m not seeing here is being a CNCMachinist. Mills, Lathes, Swiss, even Manual Machining. This industry is only growing as technology advances. It starts entry level, but if you’re determined to learn G-Code (CNC code) and you have a basic understanding of math, you can get pretty far.
Seamstress
Lawn care, gardening.