Help me find a less ‘peopley’ career

[ChocoateDaisy]

I’m really stressed and fed up at work - feel constantly anxious. Are there any jobs I could do that would fit this criteria…

1. No contact with members of the general public
2. Minimal interactions with colleagues
3. No complex decisions in grey areas, just black and white simple processes, so something a robot could do
4. WFH at least part of the week
5. Pays at least £2000 a month take home pay for a maximum of 4 days (30 hours) work

IT

I worked in IT, if it was that simple everyone would be doing it. My job involved customers of the system I was dealing with, plus never ending meetings amd conference calls. Also major decision's. It was stressful.

What are your skills? If you want a job that's essentially autonomous you usually need some kind of specialist skill. Most jobs require you to work with colleagues. You could easily avoid the general public though, by working in a B2B environment.

I don't think point 3 is compatible with point 5.

I don’t think you can find this job. If a robot could do it… a robot will be doing it. That’s not just AI, it’s been the trend for decades.

The low skilled jobs that do still exist are almost all service industry in some way.

I agree, sorry.

Warehouse/distribution work.
Amazon packer.
Factory line worker.

Bookkeeping / accounts admin would fit this list

DBro has worked in manufacturing for years now. Works on a production line. Enjoys being left alone.

No. A simple job that a robot can do isn't going give you a take home pay of £2k for max 30hrs pw .... or we would all be doing it!

How are those jobs compatible with:

WFH at least part of the week

Pays at least £2000 a month take home pay for a maximum of 4 days (30 hours) work

?????

Decent maths skills?

If so you could look at becoming an actuary, decisions are different all the time, but they’re also fairly black and white due to being data driven.

Sorry I missed the WFH bit - my error.
I expect some do pay £2000 a month. Some factory/warehouse wages are pretty good.
However....
I don't know if this is still a thing that exists but some factories used to offer work from home jobs.
They would send a bunch of stock to the employees home and they would do the work at home.
A friends mum used to glue badges together. I at one point stuck the free gifts to the front of magazines. Sticking pamphlets/catalogues into envelopes for posting.

Software developer.

What, so just “become” a software developer, with no interaction with any people, netting 2k a month? Perhaps talk the OP through the pathway to achieving that ?

Yeah, I’m thinking no such job exists. Unfortunately

I don’t really know anything about IT or software. I know someone who worked in software and it seemed complicated.
My maths skills are probably average - probably not good enough to be an actuary.

My background is in healthcare but I’ve had enough

Surely they have to interact with project manager's, users, customers, testers etc.

The product development manager would normally be the one talking to customer, higher ups and other departments, not the lowly programmer.

I think there are jobs like this in the NHS but you have to poke around for them, and they won’t pay £2000 a month.

The administrator for our healthcare team takes about 2 phone calls a day so there is a small amount of public interaction but not much. He works 7 til 3, from home twice a week. People do come in and out of the office and it’s unpredictable but in general he’s on his own ploughing through processes such as adding referrals to the system, ordering our equipment, reporting data.

I do this as a web editor except there are decisions needed and it’s partly about design, which is subjective to some extent and not always black and white. I talk to colleagues but mostly by email or teams chats.

Obviously you need training in programming to do this job. I used to work in a software company and the programmers were exactly as the OP describes. Most of them were incredibly shy and didn’t like talking to anyone and rarely came into the office. I’m not a programmer and don’t know enough about how to become one to give any advice but if the OP likes the idea then I’m sure she can look into it.

Exactly my thoughts

My previous job in local government admin was like this ... except for point 5.

By the way, my experience of IT people is that they spend a lot of their time having (often rather frustrating) conversations with the people they're assisting. You'd need a lot of patience.

I went from a social care front line role to a supportive back office role and it was much less stressful. Unfortunately I had to return after a year and am stressed again!

You will probably need a back office job with some time in,the office each week.

Gluing packets to front of magazines does sound appealing but I can’t imagine it pays enough.

I am quite creative and would love to work as like an artist but again I don’t think it pays well which is why I didn’t go down that route previously.