Good Jobs To Start Training In Now If Your Social Skills Suck

I will begin this with the warning that all jobs are headed for Minimum Wage and Part Time. Some of them will end up On Call Part Time. In the near future, everybody is going to have to get used to this. It is the new normal. If you voted for the Current Offenders, this is your fault.

That said, when all jobs pay the same, you should only work where it bothers you being there the least, or you find enjoyment in the work itself. I like books. I'd like to be a Librarian in the age of Google search and Amazon.com. The more people using those, the fewer people come to physical libraries, except of course that the more poor people there are, the less they have to spend on disposable literature (fiction) so lending libraries make sense over the long-term, at least until such point as Amazon can figure out how to pay every author and publisher their schilling for e-book loans. When that happens, all bets are off. Until then, a library is a sign of a prosperous community with civic pride. And the amount of work done by the librarians is really easy stuff, most of which is done by volunteers like me.

1. However, there ARE jobs out there which will allow people with crap social skills to work.
2. The guys who stock the grocery store shelves early in the morning.
3. The guys who pick books etc off the warehouse shelves and put it in a box or on a truck.
4. The janitors and gardeners, depending on how they want to use their daylight hours.
5. Every time there's a drought or a freeze, there's work for gardeners, and the guys who grow the plants at nursery supply companies.
6. Driving a forklift safely keeps lots of people employed, even if they're awkward around other people.
7. Fry cooks tend to stay employed and only have to deal with other fry cooks and waitresses, leaving the customers to other people. Dishwashers end up interacting with customers and waitresses, so need more social skills than cooks, but cooks just need to work on a speedy schedule. They don't have time to think so if you're the sort who prefers not to have philosophical ponderings, learn to fry.
8. I see a bright future for machinists and repairmen and people who can operate a Volt-Ohm meter. They don't need to talk to others much, and if your conversations end up embarrassing you or the other party storms away or you get fired shortly after, this may be the place for you. Be good at math. Mostly simple math, but still math.
9. If you want the better jobs out of the weather, be good at spectroscope operation, since electronic devices rely on wave forms and curves etc. I briefly used these in Physics Lab in college and never touched one again. It was really pointless. I really don't get them, but part of maturity is knowing what you don't care to do again, no matter what.
10. Truck driving is going to get interesting. The market in the USA is saturated with NAFTA drivers from Mexico, and their accidents are both notorious and common. Apparently, a Mexican can get a NAFTA license if he bribes the right official, with no training, and gets to learn on the job hauling triple trailers out of Mexico to the US border and sometimes unhooking them, sometimes not. Wise drivers pull off the highway to get away from these because triple trailers have some big physics problems that result in flipping over and death for anybody in the way. Very unsafe. NAFTA is one of the things we got both parties approved of because it gave the Saudis the Finger since it requires Canada and Mexico sell oil to us, by law, first. On the upside for Canada and Mexico, this pays for a lot of graft and villas and perks, but for the common man, not much at all, over there. Here, our gasoline is a buck a gallon cheaper than it would be. Ponder that. And all we have to do is sacrifice lives on the highway. So if you opt to become a truck driver, be aware that sleep comes in 4 hour blocks, by law, and you'll be out of business if you take 5 hours at a time. Schedules, you see. Teams of truckers avoid this, but split shares of the profits by half and truckers by virtue of sitting still for hours at a time have the highest incidence of Diabetes of any job anywhere. They also get heart attacks. Until NAFTA ends, you can't make much of a living at this, long haul, but short haul is a different kettle of fish, pays far less, and lets you sleep in your bed, see your wife, and have more back injuries because you touch way more cargo. You also need more social skills because you're dealing with warehouse docks and sometimes shop keepers. Shop Keepers are extroverts and usually narcissists filled with lies and sales techniques and greed, so remember that when you tip your cap after they sign the papers. You've got your rounds.
11. Govt employees have very special advantages. Most are union, most get paid a lot more than others during bad economies because their union negotiates year on year or decade on decade. Govt employees have economic inertia to insulate them from collapse. Raises come slower, but pay cuts are rare and more often, you just get pink slipped due to budget cuts, which always have a long time coming. No overtime in govt, either, with few exceptions. These are hard jobs to get, unfortunately. Some require you to take tests that are offered once a year, but the job for it only comes every 2-3 years. This straining process is meant to turn people away from trying for govt jobs. The other way to get a govt job is to be a volunteer who isn't always available due to other work contracts, but is there enough that the skills you have make you valuable enough to make room in the budget for  your employment to solve those particular problems, usually in some unsavory or punishing task that the senior employees would rather not do.

And remember, all wages head for minimum. Ergo, raising minimum wages DOES help you. It also increases inflation and cuts hours so you will find yourself with less hours, less money, less benefits. This is what you voted for. You voted for Less.