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Blackout

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#31
Serious answer, maybe something like a park ranger. There is a guy in my district who has an office in a watch tower up in the hills, overlooking the local ranges for bushfires (and has been for the best part of a few decades I am told). If you were a shut in, it would be a pretty sweet gig.
 

The Passenger

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#34
Some guy lets call him simon rang up the radio to request a song.The radio guy disc jockey (whatever there called) asked what sort of work he does the simon said i drive around and check powerpoles.
Being a power pole checker doesn't mean you can forego face to face interaction. A few years back I dropped a strong dose of MDMA and my mates said I went missing for about 20 minutes when I said I was going for a piss. After checking on my whereabouts they found me out the front of the house having a deep and meaningful with the power pole.
 

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#36
Is it face to face interaction you seek to avoid or all interaction? The latter is the tougher of the two.

I reckon a good job for avoiding other humans would be a passenger train driver. They hop in the carriage, close the door then hop out at the end of shift. I don't even know what they do any more given the level of automation in the rail system. Unruly passengers etc. are dealt with by transit guards and station personnel. The driver just sits in the cabin and drives the train. How hard can it be? </Jeremy Clarkson>
Downside is 72 weeks of training and it's a surprisingly difficult field to get into just simply due to supply and demand.

Decent money for the amount of work they do though. The jumper thing is the massive downside.
 

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#39
Train driver is a good one, surprisingly hard field to get into however, need some decent credentials, experience and luck to be able to land a job.

Garbage man :D
 

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#40
72 weeks of training??? WTF.

How much of an issue is the jumper thing anyway? It's not like it's a weekly occurence.
I've heard that many people can take years to get over it though and some never do.

I like to think that I'm not very emotional about much but seeing someone jump in front of a train and seeing the mess afterwards, I'm not sure how I'd react......
 

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#45
You'd think that meter reader days are numbered, most new houses have the technology in them to be able to track to electricity head quarters. Not 100% sure but do they still exist.
We still have a gas meter reader,but the electricity one ended a year ago with the new smart meters.Not sure about the water.
 

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#48
I am the same as you Run n Spread. Hate talking to ******* customers and having to act polite to them.
Got a job at a warehouse as a storeperson (mainly pick/packing). No customers even come in the joint which is good. I'm a casual now and get 22/23 an hour which is ok for a job with no qualifications needed. Don't need to talk to anyone apart from small talk in the lunchroom with other staff (which annoys me tbh)
How come you didn't get this job before you went to uni?
 

Run n Spread

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It depends how far you wanna take it. Are we talking about client/customer communication or just with fellow employees?

If you're talking literally no face to face communication and simply filling in your timesheet and some sort of report to a manager than there is probably none.

I've read a few stories of people starting to work for themselves because they wanted to cut down their interaction with people, but ended up communication more with the outside world.
Mainly talking client interaction. Happy to do general face to face but not be in a position of having to sell, liase or any other buzzword that is just customer service. Employees I am happy to chat to but don't really want there constant presence 24-7. Employers are a different story. A good manager will delegate and have faith in their people to carry out their job autonomously in a professional way. Most bosses take the view that a kindergarten level of supervision is required and are completely unreasonable. That said I'd prefer a boss (worst case as really if I ever made enough money I'd be never working for anyone again) employee situation where there is minimal contact, preferably not in the same location.

Something like a driver (at least if you were dealing with fu*&wits they can be chucked out) or ranger (thou not my area) would be ideal.
 

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Customer service/selling is living a lie. What's worse is that it's someone elses lie. In the last job I'm ever likely to have (phew), I had a falling out with the owner of the company after he told me that my problem was that I was too honest. He saw clients as potential victims. And that's the other odious aspect of sales - the arseholes posing as workmates, with whom you must cohabit.
Customer Service or whatever you want to call it for want of a better term is necessary as in 100% truth you are always working for someone. Even indiviuals are selling a service or good to someone. There is nothing wrong then giving a true representation, acting professionally, reasonably and trying to find common ground.

You are dead on about it being someone elses lie thou. Trouble is most people are completely bloody unreasonable and unless you develop a hard edge quickly in dealing with most you are chewed up and spat out pretty quickly.

Sales and customer relations people are the biggest hypocrites of all. For all the talk of putting the customer first and giving a great service experience what it really means is have a cheery disposition and be bright and happy while you screw them royally on someone else's behalf. Also the customer is rarely always right and it most cases simply wrong so makes an unpleasant experience all round.
 
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