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You might like being a park of forest ranger. I enjoy animal husbandry in research myself. I get plenty of alone with the critters time.
But in pretty much any job you are going to have to deal with at least some people. For a highly sensitive introvert it can be challenging but as was mentioned above you can and should work on learning how to function in society.
Writer? Personally, I had a great deal of autonomy in IT, but that really depends on the kind of IT job & I still worked for a corporation. But most of the time, I was left alone to sit in the corner & code :-) Work at home jobs will provide you greater autonomy, though not absolute.
The trades often work with customers. In almost every career path, you have a boss you have to work with.
Introvert and loner are two different things. For the OP, I recommend fire tower lookout, ice road trucker, Alaskan crab fisherman, or maybe hard hat saturation diver. Most of those still have to interact with others, at least small groups, but the work environment cuts through the BS pretty quickly.
Ive never seen weird, introverted people screw others over. Ive seen plenty of extroverted, sociopathic, Greedy money grubbers do such though.
You show me a quiet weird, introvert sitting at home keeping to himself, and I'll show you someone NOT causing any trouble unless they go nuts. But thats mainly the result of someone not getting their proper medication
I'm introverted and held a job for 7 years as a CNC programmer/machinist. What made it work for me was that I worked in a satellite location from the main company headquarters. I worked with one co-worker and my boss who I got along with well. If I were to have held this position at a larger corporate environment I would have not have lasted 7 years, because I would have to deal with multiple managers, supervisors and all the gossip that is found in those places.
Beat me to the punch. An angry recluse lifestyle sounds appropriate. You still have to deal with BS though. Bears, badgers, ticks, fleas, chiggers, malarial mosquitoes, wolves, coyotes, herds of angry deer...cold weather, hot weather, rain, snow, drought, fire, ice...if OP thinks life among The Great Unwashed is tough, try to make a living as so many of God's creatures have to do.
"No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death: and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short."
--Thomas Hobbes
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