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The 13 best jobs for people who hate people

Nov 16, 2015, 23:30 IST

Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design/flickr
Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design/flickr

Not everybody is a people person.

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If this sounds like you, your best approach for finding a job could be searching for work where people skills aren't all that necessary.

To find these jobs, we averaged data from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), a US Department of Labor database full of detailed information on 974 occupations.

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:

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