I need a job with no collaboration

[Anonymous]

Can you learn to program? I could go months without talking to anybody.

I’d do technical writing otherwise.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP here - let me clarify. Something in the federal government or as a private consultant.

Where are the jobs where they stuck you in a basement next to a filing cabinet (before WFH) for five years unless a random comet is hitting the west coast and they need a report?

I supervise people with jobs like that. They make $60-80k.

Yep. Just got one of these jobs—hallelujah—at $80k.

OP, not sure of the transferability of your degrees/experience, but look for things like policy analyst, legislative analyst, research analyst, etc.

I’m coming from 20+ years of people-intensive work and dreaming of a quiet little file cabinet myself. As far as I can tell, new job is 30% research, 30% writing, 30% tracking legislation and 10% peopling. I could not be happier and am gladly giving up the extra $20k that came from managing people, collaboration, and public interface.

Sounds like a dream. What type of employer is this — think tank? Trade org?

Gov—regulatory agency.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:sure... you can be a IT network engineer.

My DH is an IT systems architect for a government contractor and seems to spend a god awful amount of time on conference calls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hear you! Working with other people is just exhausting. People are just angry and extremely sensitive these days. I would love to just sit in a room and research stuff and provide write-ups for others.

Me, too (or three). I'm a lawyer and would love to just do legal research and write briefs. I'd be happy sitting in a closet doing that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I hear you! Working with other people is just exhausting. People are just angry and extremely sensitive these days. I would love to just sit in a room and research stuff and provide write-ups for others.

Me, too (or three). I'm a lawyer and would love to just do legal research and write briefs. I'd be happy sitting in a closet doing that.

You and I should share a job. I just want to take depositions and negotiate. I never want to write a brief again as long as I live.

[Anonymous]

Lighthouse keeper. Toll booth operator (but you might have to pocket every other toll in order to earn $150,000 or so). Beekeeper. Farming is a fairly isolated occupation. Long-haul truck driver. Data analysis/data analytics work from home position.

[Anonymous]

Why would an employer pay six figure salary to masters level employee when they can hire PhDs if the job is mostly research?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Patent examiner.

+1

Do you have a science/math/engineering degree, OP? Examiners cap out at GS-14.

[Anonymous]

What you describe sounds friends/coworkers who are accountants.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I hear you! Working with other people is just exhausting. People are just angry and extremely sensitive these days. I would love to just sit in a room and research stuff and provide write-ups for others.

Me, too (or three). I'm a lawyer and would love to just do legal research and write briefs. I'd be happy sitting in a closet doing that.

You and I should share a job. I just want to take depositions and negotiate. I never want to write a brief again as long as I live.

NP. Lawyer here who doesn’t want to do ANY of these things anymore haha. Soooo glad I got out of litigation this year!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here - let me clarify. Something in the federal government or as a private consultant.

Where are the jobs where they stuck you in a basement next to a filing cabinet (before WFH) for five years unless a random comet is hitting the west coast and they need a report?

Your PM experience is totally irrelevant to what you describe.

No one is hiring someone who has no interest in collaboration.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:sure... you can be a IT network engineer.

My DH is an IT systems architect for a government contractor and seems to spend a god awful amount of time on conference calls.

I work in an IT organization for a Federal Agency and Network Engineers are hardly isolated.

You have to deal with people to make that kind of money, and OP describes a role in near total isolation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP here - let me clarify. Something in the federal government or as a private consultant.

Where are the jobs where they stuck you in a basement next to a filing cabinet (before WFH) for five years unless a random comet is hitting the west coast and they need a report?

Your PM experience is totally irrelevant to what you describe.

No one is hiring someone who has no interest in collaboration.

This. Even long distance truck drivers have to interact with people when picking up and delivering cargo. Few jobs can be done in relatively complete isolation; most are not perceived as benefitting from an absence of input from others.