O*NET rates each occupation on a scale from zero to 100 on how much a job requires workers to be in contact with others and how much a job requires workers to be pleasant with others, where a lower rating signals less required sociability.
While people who hold these positions aren’t necessarily standoffish, the following jobs got the lowest average score and require very minimal good-natured interaction with others:
13. Economists
Required sociability score: 57.5
What they do: Conduct research, prepare reports, or formulate plans to address economic problems related to the production and distribution of goods and services or monetary and fiscal policy.
12. Potters
Required sociability score: 57
What they do: Operate production machines such as pug mill, jigger machine, or potter’s wheel to process clay in manufacture of ceramic, pottery, and stoneware products.
11. Transportation equipment painters
Required sociability score: 56.5
What they do: Operate or tend painting machines to paint surfaces of transportation equipment like automobiles, buses, trucks, trains, boats, and airplanes.
10. Forging machine setters, operators, and tenders
Required sociability score: 56.5
What they do: Set up, operate, or tend forging machines to taper, shape, or form metal or plastic parts.
9. Fallers
Required sociability score: 56.5
What they do: Use axes or chainsaws to fell trees using knowledge of tree characteristics and cutting techniques to control direction of fall and minimize tree damage.
8. Hand grinding and polishing workers
Required sociability score: 56
What they do: Grind, sand, or polish, using hand tools or hand-held power tools, a variety of metal, wood, stone, clay, plastic, or glass objects.
7. Geological sample test technicians
Required sociability score: 56
What they do: Test or analyze geological samples, crude oil, or minerals to detect presence of petroleum, gas, or mineral deposits.
6. Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders
Required sociability score: 54.5
What they do: Observe continuous operation of automatic machines to ensure that products meet specifications and to detect jams or malfunctions, making adjustments as necessary.
5. Garment or textile pressers
Required sociability score: 53.5
What they do: Operate steam, hydraulic, or other pressing machines to remove wrinkles from garments and flatwork items, or to shape, form, or patch articles.
4. Craft artists
Required sociability score: 53.5
What they do: Create or reproduce handmade objects for sale and exhibition using a variety of techniques, such as welding, weaving, pottery, and needlecraft.
3. Poets, lyricists, and creative writers
Required sociability score: 52
What they do: Create original written works, such as scripts, essays, prose, poetry or song lyrics, for publication or performance.
2. Farmworkers and crop laborers
Required sociability score: 51.5
What they do: Manually plant, cultivate, and harvest vegetables, fruits, nuts, and field crops.
1. Hunters and trappers
Required sociability score: 51
What they do: Hunt and trap wild animals for human consumption, fur, feed, bait, or other purposes.
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