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

Yup, of course we don’t have to interact with colleagues or make complex decisions 🤦‍♀️

Yes unfortunately you might not earn enough doing that 🙁
I was trying to think outside the box.
I actually had the same issue several years back but I never did find a solution (well.... I had a baby instead 😂)

Real artist's work is a lot about communication, marketing and production - it is self employed work and you need to find clients, work on your brand and visibility. Probably not what you are looking for.

10 years ago it would make sense to try to get to some easier part of coding like web pages, but those times are over, both because the industry is saturated and the AI taking over simpler tasks.

With your healthcare background, would there be any relevant opportunity in pharma? I know a young doctor who left and is now doing some pharmaceutical calculations.

Precisely

Undertaker. The dead aren't that sociable.

Yes, I know what you mean, I’d be hopeless at the marketing side of being an artist

Hahaha I actually work in pharmacy. I feel like we’ve come full circle…

Funnily enough when I was at school we did a quiz type thing in careers and undertaker was the top suggestion

Don't you have to have a degree in maths or stats or similar for actuary @Simonjt ?

Exactly. With exceptions, pay is linked to responsibilities and hence stress

Most of the work is with the relatives, who are grieving

True, but the relatives tend to be a bit demanding.

Depends on the role. Also, OP thinks this is a great suggestion. Case closed. No charge for my assistance on this occasion.

Have you thought about working for yourself in some way? Yes there will be customers but at least you can pick and choose which ones you bother with. I imagine there's not as much pressure to placate them and you can draw the line and walk away from the really bad ones. I imagine that online selling is a touch more removed because the complaints will be via email rather than face to to face. I have considered this myself and I'm mulling over a few craft based business ideas but I just can't settle on how I want to start.

Anything that's easily automated will be automated. The job you are looking for doesn't really exist unless you are highly skilled in something niche.

Id probably recommend learning accounting and tax stuff. You would have to deal with clients but if you do well enough you could hire someone to do the client facing stuff later on while you do the complex accounts.

I don't mean working in a pharmacy as preparing and selling drugs in Boots. I was thinking something lab or office based in pharmaceuticals or potentially cosmetics - drug safety, drug issues reporting (case management), regulations, things like that.

To be clear, I don't understand the field at the slightest, nor do I know how much it pays. Now, thinking about it, you being in the industry probably means that you know what is possible much better than I do.
I was just thinking "what is generally well paying industry where your healthcare experience could be relevant"? And this sounded as worth checking.

Train to be a bookeeper?

There is an NHS job called Clinical Coder.

You allocate a code every procedure in order to work out costs.

It's well paid. You can be trained by the N HS. Trainees are paid £2000 a month plus

I hear you, OP! Here are some things that I thought about -

-Some admin roles government.
-Data entry roles.
-Book editor.
-Supermarket shelf stocker.

Sys admin role in IT. But you need training, and there is some contact with colleagues, who are likely to be male and there are quite a number of ND people, so the shock of having to speak to a woman can make them flustered, but in other cases, they'll just ignore you as much as possible.

My advice is think about the skill that comes easiest to you and build your career around that.

It def is, for a software engineer, which is the route I would advocate for. It isn't going to get replaced by AI but I do think quantum computing will be a game changer for virtually every person on the planet.

Work in a doctors surgery as a prescription clerk. Yoy’ll be office based. Doesn’t fit the wfh, and you’ll still have contact with people, but you maybe to limit the time available to speak to the public.

No, you can train via apprenticeship now which is becoming fairly popular.

I understand as I've worked within the broad term of social care for nearly 25 years and people are exhausting.

However maybe look at roles where the peopley bit is more fulfilling or removed. So I moved from a long term case holding team to a front door team where I didn't case hold...decision made and that was it.

Then I had a job where it was more fulfilling as you got to see the positive outcome of the work you did. I needed that, at that time in my career.

I'm currently more removed as im in an audit type role.

I joke that I bloody hate people but I've worked in peopley jobs all my life! For me I don't have mental space for lots of peopley stuff outside work.

Clinical coding looks good but it’s not well paid - trainee jobs seem to be starting at NHS band 3 then averaging at band 5 with only more senior roles on the higher bands. I’m currently equivalent to NHS band 7