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- Some people work best by themselves.
- Thankfully, there are plenty of jobs that require very little person-to-person contact.
- Using data from O*NET, we calculated the jobs that require the bare minimum of dealing with others.
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For some workers, talking to other people is the absolute worst part of their day. But if they had a job where they kept human interaction to a minimum, they just might thrive.
To calculate the jobs with the least amount of human contact, we used data from the Department of Labor’s O*NET Online occupational database, which lists seven job characteristics that involve talking to other people: Speaking; communicating with persons outside the organization; communicating with peers, supervisors, or subordinates; contact with others; face-to-face discussions; public speaking; and social orientation.
After averaging those seven characteristics together, we filtered for jobs with median annual wages above the overall national median in 2018 of $38,640.
Here are the jobs with the lowest average social scores. They’re the highest-paying jobs you can have that don’t require talking to other people.
Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders (Metal and Plastic) have an overall communication score of 49.3
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Lowest-scoring communication skills:
1. Public speaking: 15
2. Social orientation: 44
3. Speaking: 50
What they do, according to O*NET: Set up, operate, or tend milling or planing machines to mill, plane, shape, groove, or profile metal or plastic work pieces.
Median annual wage in 2018: $43,590
Number employed: 19,440
Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders have an overall communication score of 49
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Lowest-scoring communication skills:
1. Public speaking: 10
2. Speaking: 47
3. Social orientation: 54
What they do, according to O*NET: Set up, operate, or tend continuous flow or vat-type equipment; filter presses; shaker screens; centrifuges; condenser tubes; precipitating, fermenting, or evaporating tanks; scrubbing towers; or batch stills. These machines extract, sort, or separate liquids, gases, or solids from other materials to recover a refined product. Includes dairy processing equipment operators.
Median annual wage in 2018: $40,810
Number employed: 49,770
(Tie) Mine Shuttle Car Operators have an overall communication score of 48.4
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Lowest-scoring communication skills:
1. Public speaking: 10
2. Speaking: 47
3. Social orientation: 50
What they do, according to O*NET: Operate diesel or electric-powered shuttle cars in underground mines to transport materials from working face to mine cars or conveyor.
Median annual wage in 2018: $56,340
Number employed: 1,690
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Source: Business Insider – ideluce@businessinsider.com (Ivan De Luce)