Job ideas for shy 19yo

[Bopk]

Please no judgement. DS is shy. Didn't finish college due to MH problems, I think he's on the spectrum tbh.
Had a job in childcare for around 12 months but left without telling us and has now been out of work for a while.

Any idea what would suit someone who does not want to deal with alot of people face to face? He likes getting fit and I thought some kind of manual labour but I think the banter and the 'boys club' attitude of most construction workers would be too much for him.

Any ideas please?

My friend who doesn't like people very much stacks shelves at night when it's shut to customers. She just puts her ear phones on and listens to Podcasts on astrophysics and politics. It suits her and she earns more than me per hour, I'm an admin in the NHS.
Also on that note the NHS are very good with people who have MH issues or are on the Spectrum in my experience.

Oh that's a really interesting idea. He is a complete night owl too so that may suit him in a few ways.

Thankyou.

How about something like a gardener or tree surgeon? Outdoors but with less other people, so presumably less banter. Gardeners often work by themselves or in small groups.

Garden centre/nursery.

Dd18 has ASD. Very quiet around people... Got a job in a pizza shop! Shocked me to bits!!

My daughter applied to Asda - they had personality type questions and said they fitted people to roles based no the answers. So something like an online picker might work as I guess limited interaction with others.

Amazon warehouse employee, they pay quite well actually.
Round here some small factories looking for packers as well.

What about going for electrician or plumber apprentice? They would probably only be working with one other person and cane spend most their time with their head down and getting on with the job.

We had a plumber and apprentice round not very long ago and they were both lovely, but I'm not sure the apprentice said much more than "hello" "yes" and "goodbye"!

I would agree with the others who have said that either working evenings in a supermarket or a job in a distribution centre (if there is one nearby) would probably work well.

Pay in the distribution centres is generally higher than working in the stores.

Someone mentioned Amazon, they can be particularly demanding.

I know someone who worked in a Tesco chilled distribution centre for quite a while and enjoyed it.

To give an example of what the work involves, suppliers deliver chilled stuff (fruit & veg, meat, yogurt, cheese, ready meals etc) to the distribution centre on pallets and then the people who work there then use electric pallet trucks to take the items around the warehouse and place them in the cages for each individual store.

To be quite frank, apart from break times, you generally never talk to anybody else unless you want to. If you choose not to talk to other people and just get on with your job that is perfectly normal.

@MargaretThursday they have to be chatty and forthcoming with other tradespeople though, or they don't get hired.
Lidl or Aldi don't encourage their till staff to chat to customers and you're scored on how efficient you are so would that suit him. The only thing I wouldn't like is having to do the restocking and then dash to the tills.

Would he consider a job that makes him tackle his shyness head on? I was painfully shy as a teen, i never wanted to leave the house on my own and I walked with my head down everywhere. I couldn't look people in the eye, I wouldn't talk to shop staff etc.

I then got a job as a waitress and hated it everyday. But looking back it was the best thing I ever did as it showed me I can talk and interact with people. The job challenged me and allowed me to grow.

Coding. My dh’s company is full of people who are on the spectrum who don’t like communicating with other people. They all work from home.

WFH doesn't mean 'minimal communication' you know. As a programmer myself the job requires better communication skills than average! Unless you're a low level code monkey - which are mostly offshored or automated in 2023.

The OP did say 'face to face' but if he doesn't like conversation presumably the medium won't make a difference.