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

Yeah, I’ve tried looking for roles in places like MHRA or GPhC but they are all London based. I’ve not found anything non-patient facing in my location.

I love perfume - developing scents sounds like it would be a fun job but I’ve no idea how you get into that. (And again probably not in my location)

I’ve heard train drivers are well paid

I sometimes think if I had my time over I would have learned to drive and become a long distance delivery driver.
Obviously you have to make small talk with the people loading/unloading but it's hours of being on the road listening to the radio !

No.

you could probably find a job that fit 4 of your 5 but there isn’t anything that fits all of them,

Are you a pharmacist OP? This really doesn’t fit your brief but if you’re in community pharmacy could you make the switch to hospital? I’m asking as I know community is super stressful. I’ve worked as a hospital pharmacist for about 20 years and it’s WAY less stressful in terms of ‘working with the public’. It’s complex though.

Yes, I’m currently working as a PCN pharmacist. I’ve previously worked in hospital, I switched to PCN to be closer to home (I actually WFH most of the week), it was an hour’s commute each way to the hospital.

There are definitely aspects of hospital pharmacy I prefer to GP pharmacy though and I sometimes think about switching back. I’ve actually never worked in community pharmacy.

Point 3 means a job that is likely to be replaced with AI.

I have administrators working in my team (Higher Education) which fulfil all of your criteria. But, they don’t take home 2k per month although not too much below that.

Tax office ,no contact with people ,good pay , good holidays , good pension

I’ve just thought! Domestic cleaning. A very long way from point 5, and it’s bloody hard work, but with the right clients you’d be left alone.

Bookkeeper

It's something a robot can do it's a job with no future

I always wanted to be long distance Clara from pigeon street and listen to the radio.

Dont fancy the reversing though

Unfortunately as I am only five foot tall I don't think I would have made a good lorry driver. I'd be like Moleman from the Simpsons.

Sorry the replies on here have got me creased 😅

Book editor?

What's wrong with book editor?
I knew someone who did that. Edited some type of boring scientific text books.
All from home. Didn't ever have to leave the house if they didn't want to.

I'm afraid the location will be an issue.

Now you need to be lucky enough to be close to some company's base, or look at jobs which are available everywhere.

The good thing is that you need just one job now, a single silver unicorn.

Could you work the other way round, look at what companies advertise jobs in natural science related industries in your location and start from there?

Not for that wage. To get thet wage you would be quite senior/experienced and so there would be some expectation of training and managing people

I was waiting for someone to say software or IT. I don’t know what interactions the OP can’t handle. I am in teams call a lot and need to make lots of decisions. There are inter office travel too. Luckily my current job doesn’t have much but I have a long distance one coming up later in the year. I used to travel to Manchester and Derby once a month.

No WFH but train driving might be worth serious consideration?

Definitely a good job if you can only tolerate seeing people for small bouts at a time.

I did a one-day perfumery course once! 😉Apparently, most perfumiers have chemistry degrees. Maybe your background is similar? We were also told that women tend to have better senses of smell than men, but that the industry has traditionally been male-dominated and even sees women as a threat!

We also learned that there are few independent perfumiers these days, as the smaller companies kept being gobbled up by larger ones, until a few corporations dominated the market. And apparently, working as a perfumier for one of these companies is quite pressurised, as you're expected to come up with lots of new scents.