What are some job opportunities for introverted people who don’t want to talk to people all day? I’m a BA now & I get so anxious and drained before every convo. Would QA testing be a good route? I have some experience in manual software testing but mostly everything else is BA experience. I don’t mind talking to team members or my managers but hate talking to clients and upper management :/

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Anything really technical where you spend most of your time coding/configuring/analyzing (actuary, software engineer, expert in a niche cloud platform, etc). The upside is these often have comp trajectories as good or better than many jobs where you have to talk to people a lot.

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talking to people = career progression. if you're okay with not growing, then find company with a ton of old people and develop a niche there. by old people, I mean people who have worked at their company 15-30 years = proves good job stability and tolerable politics.

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You are right, QA is a good option. There is lot of test automation so you may want to learn some automation tools. Other areas are RPA, data analytics, technical writing, production support/operations. I was an introvert in my earlier career but grew out of it. Read the book Quiet, it is a good read

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How did you grow out of it? Just with years of having to socialize at work? But thank you for the suggestions. Quiet is definitely on my list!

What is exactly the part that you dislike about talking to client or upper management vs when speaking with team members ?

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