as someone who has a doctorate myself and as someone who happens to be an introvert and is someone who has happened to help thousands of people choose their dream careers or degrees I get asked this question all the time what is the best degree or career for introverts and the truth is you can do any degree or career if you're an introvert and don't let anybody tell you otherwise because you're awesome but with that being said there are definitely some careers in some degrees that are going to be more likely to be a good choice for you if you're an introvert so that's what we're going to be talking about in today's video now there's also different types of introverts that can do well in different careers and understanding these things and having different options for different careers you can look into as an introvert can save you like 10 years of Smashing your head against the wall trying to figure out what a good career for you is now I remember being in school being a shy introverted kid and having absolutely no idea what I should do with my career and I remember there was this one time where I did a job where I serve people at a race track and I would literally be interacting with hundreds and hundreds of really annoyed people every single day because they had to wait in a super long line before they finally got to me and by the end of the day I was absolutely exhausted I remember going home laying down and basically just staring at the ceiling for an hour and then the rest of the night I only had energy to watch Netflix and play RuneScape but luckily over the years through trial and error I tried out a bunch of different jobs that I liked and some that I didn't like and I found some that were relatively good for me and these were jobs where I actually felt energized when I got home right and these were jobs where I actually enjoyed my work as well and another thing I learned is that the way they that you spend time working is incredibly important right so if you try to get a fish to climb a tree that's probably not going to work out very well and if you try to get somebody who's introverted to constantly have to meet up with large groups of new people that they've never met before all day long on a day-to-day basis that's probably also not going to work and just like a fish would be able to swim very easily through the water introverts actually have super powers that I'm going to get into later on in the video right and these are powers that extroverts don't have and this is something that's extremely important in life is that you play to your strengths and seriously if you're an introvert this video is going to give you an unfair advantage and it's probably going to save you five to ten years of struggle because most of the advice out there on what to do if you're an introvert is extremely basic and it's just not helpful at all so if you appreciate me doing these types of introvert related videos go ahead gently tap that like button it lets me know that you want me to do more of them and let's get into it right now so the first one on this list is going to be health and pre-health related degrees and what I mean by this is a health degree at the bachelor's level would be something like a BSN which you would use to get into nursing and then there's also a lot of people who will do kind of like a pre-health track which could be a bunch of different things but basically you're using it in order to get into a graduate level health program to become a doctor a PA a nurse practitioner or a pharmacist and you might be surprised that I said this one because as a healthcare practitioner you do actually have to interact with a lot of different people on a day-to-day basis but this one actually does depend heavily on what specialty you go into and this is the one that I chose myself because I got a doctorate in order to become a pharmacist and as a pharmacist you are actually expected to be a leader right by definition you got a doctorate you're expected to be a leader because you are going to be sort of above people who are pharmacy technicians for instance you're going to be checking their work making sure that everything they do is not going to harm the the patient and so you might think here well if you're in healthcare you have to interact with a bunch of people plus you're expected to be a leader in many circumstances so why the heck would introverts go into this and most people naturally see leaders as being extroverts and this isn't surprising as in the book quiet the power of introverts by Susan Kane she basically argues that modern society is built almost entirely around extroversion in school systems for example deaths are purposely arranged in such a way to facilitate group projects and high levels of interaction and activity and most teachers believe that students should be extroverts and then when you graduate school and you get into the workforce you're expected to be extroverted because you have to promote yourself right you have to promote your personal brand in order to rise up within a company and as you've probably seen if you worked in companies before a lot of the time the most capable people are not the ones who end up getting the promotions it's the people who self-promote quite a bit it's the people who network with others it's the people who are proactive about becoming leaders in certain situations and by the way this is a great book if you're an introvert you should definitely read it because it's going to help you understand your strengths and it's going to help you get past all the frustrations of being an introvert in the modern world right so I have it on my Kindle here I don't have a physical copy because I'm kind of like traveling around a lot but yeah definitely recommend uh reading this book so when I was going through pharmacy school and I was working in healthcare I was actually shocked at how many other introverts were in healthcare as well and many of them were in these leadership type positions like doctor pharmacist PA nurse practitioner Etc right I thought I was going to be the only introvert there but what I found is introverts actually have super powers in many cases so for instance introverts tend to have extremely strong one-on-one communication skills and part of that is because they're good listeners so if you're an introvert you probably have no issues talking with one of your best friends in a one-on-one situation if you're anything like me I have no issue with that where I have a bit of an issue is when I meet a bunch of new people and I'm in a large group and most of them I don't know that tends to drain my energy and make me extremely tired introverts also seem to be very introspective and self-reflective so you know in healthcare there's always something new that you can learn so even if on a technical level you know everything about a certain disease state for instance let's like let's say you know everything about diabetes there's always more that you can do for instance patients probably hear a hundred different times from their doctor nurses Etc that they need to go ahead and exercise right they need to go out and walk 20 minutes a day but if you're not able to sell them on that if you're not able to convince them to do that then you're not doing as good of a job as you could as a healthcare practitioner right so you might know everything about health care everything about diabetes everything about exercise but if you're not able to communicate that in a way that the patient understands and convince them of why they should do it in order to improve their own health and improve their own outcomes then you kind of have failed and so for instance something you could do that really resonates with people is tell them a story of a different patient that you had that was in a very similar situation to them and they started walking every day for 20 minutes they just you know go walk their dog for instance every single day and they reported losing 20 pounds they had better mental health they felt better they felt more energized all day long and they had all these different benefits and then you explained to them kind of like the health and the technical reasons behind that and they're going to resonate with that much more because of the fact that you told a story storytelling is essential to good communication not only does it convince them on an emotional level but they're also able to actually remember it because the human brain remembers things in stories so that's just one example of skills that you can work on as a healthcare worker to get better results for your patients and this is something that if you're an introvert you would probably think about right you would probably think about huh the Pharmacists and the Pas that get the best results for their patients are good storytellers they're good communicators how can I become a better Communicator as well and sell my patients on why they should do X Y or Z introverts also tend to be much better at just sitting down and really diving into a patient profile to figure out you know if there's any dangers in the profile to figure out what you know can be done to make things better and to solve any problems that the patient might have so yeah there are absolutely superpowers that introverts have that extroverts don't in health care now when it comes to the numbers if you've been watching my channel you know that Healthcare degrees and Healthcare careers are some of the best out there I would say personally Healthcare occupations are probably second best behind technology related careers and they're actually growing faster than any other type of career out there so according to BLS they're projected to grow about 13 percent over the next 10 years and the median annual salary for healthcare workers is 75 000 a year now let's just take nurse as an example so this is a bachelor level degree there's about 210 000 results if you type in nurse then sort by entry level on LinkedIn that is a lot of demand for nurses if you look it up on Glassdoor nurses make about seventy thousand dollars a year but keep in mind that's just the entry-level role there's a lot of other roles nurses can go into a lot of the time nurses actually end up in leadership positions within hospitals so in conclusion I actually did enjoy working in healthcare before the the whole um cough cough situation happened once that happened it did become kind of a nightmare of illogical thinking it was highly politicized and it became kind of all about politics instead of helping people which is the reason that I got into it in the first place you know it became about following the science and listening to the scientists and the doctors except the ones that had a different opinion than the most powerful people in the world which were controlling everything at the time you know anybody who had a different opinion was misinformation they got blocked banned censored and canceled and rightfully so because how dare they have a different opinion than the most powerful people in the country that would be like speaking truth to power which is a part of you know freedom of speech which is a terrible thing but yeah corruption in the U.S Health Care system is a topic for another video next one we're going to talk about is statistics and Mathematics degrees and if you're really good at math and statistics and you enjoy it you will probably never be without job opportunities why because you're rare most people are not good at math and of the ones who are good at it a lot of them don't really enjoy it and of course not all introverts are great at math but I have noticed that people that are good at math do tend to be introverted now I'm personally good but not amazing at math and there's some parts of math that I just cannot stand for instance there was this Advanced statistics class that I took where it was right after my lunch and typically I will actually you know sit at the front of the class because hey you're paying all this money you might as well get a front row seat right but in this class the teacher was so dry and the material was just presented in such a boring way that I would constantly just be dozing off in class like I would be making eye contact with the teacher and just like my head would be dropping like every five seconds and I didn't want her to hate me so I decided to actually sit kind of towards the middle so she didn't notice me literally falling asleep almost every day now if we get in the numbers mathematics is actually ranked number 22 on my college degree ranker and that's out of 900 plus degrees so when you look at the numbers it does rank really well so statistician for instance on LinkedIn at the entry level there's about 12 000 results and there's a bunch of different career paths you can go into a lot of people will go into Finance for instance and become Financial analysts that one on LinkedIn there's about 72 000 results and if you look on Glassdoor statisticians make about 85 000 a year and financial analysts make 73 000. and again that's just the entry level there's tons of positions out there where you can make more money than that now one thing I want to emphasize here and this is something I talk about a lot in other videos is you want to focus on going into the career right not picking the degree the degree is simply just a tool that you can use to get to your goal and the goal is a career and in many cases depending on the career you want to get into you won't need a degree and that segues perfectly into the next one on the list which is a marketing degree so the most valuable skill in marketing is digital marketing and this is something where if you look at curriculums of marketing degrees and I've done this in other videos you'll see that they barely even touch on digital marketing and I've shown many different examples of people on this channel who have been able to get into digital marketing without getting marketing degrees now why is marketing such a valuable skill well for one it pairs with any other skill for two it teaches you human psychology and for three if you want to go into higher level positions or you want to start your own business it's going to teach you how to monetize that right so it's going to teach you how to actually market products so you can make money from good ideas you can make money from solving other people's problems in the form of a product or a service and one thing that my business partners and I have noticed after helping like thousands of different people is for some reason digital marketing tends to be great for introverts so for instance Ashley was an artistic yet introverted person who wanted to figure out how she can get a really good job so she could pursue her artistic interests on the side and after trying a bunch of different things that didn't work for her she started searching across the internet and she stumbled upon digital marketing and after researching digital marketing for a little bit she basically found that SEO or search engine optimization was the right choice for her and SEO is basically how you can get your website ranked on the top of Google search and by the way I did an entire interview with her which you can check out right here so when it comes to the numbers marketing actually came out as my number 24th ranked degree again that's 24 out of over 900 different degrees that I analyzed and if you type in digital marketing you search by entry level on LinkedIn you're going to see 89 000 results and if you type in digital marketing associate on Glassdoor you'll see they make about 53 000 a year if you type in SEO Specialists they make around 59 000 and remember these are the entry-level jobs these are jobs you can get actually without a college degree there's many other jobs you can move into within a few years that make it up to these six figure level so in conclusion digital marketing is probably the skill that I recommend learning the most for some reason it applies to just about all types of personality these out there and people just tend to have really good outcomes with it and this is especially good for introverts that aren't good at math and they don't want to learn how to code or go into technology this can be a phenomenal option and there's actually a free training which I'll link down in the description as well as the pin comment below that'll go over the different types of digital marketing computer science is going to be next on the list and this is one that I of course have talked about a ton on this channel and this one tends to be dominated by introverts so now one of my favorite people on the internet Naval ravacan actually had a tweet storm where he talked about skills that are incredibly valuable and he basically said that the most valuable skills are ones that you can leverage so he says Fortune requires leverage business leverage comes from Capital people and products with no marginal cost of replication and the two that he gave in his example are code and media and what exactly is leverage well Archimedes said if you give me a place to stand and a lever long enough I will move the world Leverage is where you're one person but you can do the work of 10 20 maybe even 100 or a thousand people and then Naval goes ahead and he's splits leverage into two different categories so there's permissioned leverage and permissionless leverage so he says capital and labor are permissioned leverage everyone is chasing Capital but someone has to give it to you everyone is trying to lead but someone has to follow you and so he basically says that the two types of Leverage that are permissionless are code and media and media is kind of what I'm doing now I'm broadcasting this to everybody in the world it could potentially get a million views probably not but you know it could potentially do that and then code is software development essentially you can write a piece of code that a million people use you could write a piece of software or make a website that millions of people can use and it's just one person that created it now there aren't that many skills out there where you can do this not even close to it and coding is one of them so computer science actually ranks as my number one degree on my college degree ranker out of over 900 Degrees now if you look up software developer on LinkedIn at the entry level you'll see 162 000 results and if you look up software developer on Glassdoor again at the entry level 95 and dollars a year so ridiculously high pay especially for an entry-level job now there is one small problem with this degree even though it does objectively rank number one when it comes to the numbers this is one where you can actually get into it without a college degree so there are other ways of getting into software development without getting a computer science or a software engineering degree now a lot of people who get into it do get computer science or software engineering degrees and there's nothing wrong with that it's definitely not a scam and it's definitely worth the money it gives you a good Roi but with that being said for the right type of person you might be able to teach yourself coding and get into it without getting a degree right there's no accrediting body here that says you have to have this degree in order to become a software developer also this one absolutely can be done remote I know there's a ton of people on this channel probably over 90 percent who want either a remote or semi-remote job and so what I did is I created a video called the remote jobs tier list that goes over the best remote jobs and you can check that out right here next one on the list is going to be an information technology degree now going back to our analogy about leverage information technology is basically a way to leverage technology within a business so it's basically the technology side of the businesses infrastructure and it's a way to make human beings as well as your business on a whole more efficient and so it's another incredibly valuable skill and it's also another one where you're going to spend a lot of time working by yourself and if you are going to communicate with people it's usually going to be in a one-on-one setting and if it is with a group it's probably going to be with people that you already know and are familiar with and this is one where we've had great success getting people into it roles so for instance we were able to get somebody in in 10 days and 14 days and I actually interviewed both of those people on the channel and yes I literally mean they went from zero experience to getting a job in 10 days and 14 days and as a degree information technology is ranked 15th out of over 900 Degrees and I would say this is probably the easiest way to get into the technology industry other than Tech sales Tech sales is probably a little bit easier but a lot of introverts probably do not want to be like cold calling people on the phone trying to do sales so if you're an introvert this is probably the easiest way to get your foot in the door in the technology industry now there are a ton of different super random careers you can get into one of them is going to be information technology specialist and there's 16 000 results at the entry level on LinkedIn and if you look up information technology specialist on Glassdoor you'll see they make about 61 000 a year so yeah it is probably the easiest way to get your foot in the door I interviewed Antoine on this channel and he basically started off in it then he went into kind of like an I.T Logistics type role then he went into software development then he transitioned into Tech sales and now he makes over 500 000 a year so yeah it is a great place to kind of break into Tech get your foot in the door once you're in it's very easy for you to move around to different roles so next on the list is going to be an accounting degree and this is one that my amazing girlfriend Lucy who's standing over there got herself and she is also an introvert and accounting is extremely important for basically any type of business out there now it does tend to be relatively number heavy so there is math but the math you use tends to be extremely basic and it's more about kind of organizing things and then having them like easily accessible and in such a way where it's easy to communicate data to other people you're probably going to be using tools like QuickBooks and Excel quite a bit now a lot of the work tends to involve stuff that you can basically just do on your own and if you are going to be communicating with other people it's typically going to be in a one-on-one setting and if you're communicating with people in groups it's usually going to be people that you already know so it tends to be really great for introverts now when it comes to the numbers accounting comes in at number 34 on my college degree ranker out of over 900 Degrees if you type in accountant at the entry level there's over 54 000 results in the United States and if you type in account non-glass store you're going to see 59 000 a year and remember that's just the entry level I interviewed the financial controller uh Brian on the channel and he makes I believe over 200 150 300 000 a year so that's kind of a higher level account role and that's something you can get into next one on the list is going to be engineering and this is one that of course is a great degree that you can get it's also brutally difficult now engineering is actually the degree that creates the most millionaires as well as the most CEOs out of any type of degree out there so for instance Jeff Bezos of Amazon actually got an electrical engineering and computer science degree and one big reason for that in my opinion is that engineering is all about practical problem solving so this tends to work really well when you're trying to solve problems in the real world practical problem solving is basically the heart of Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurship is basically where you're solving other people's problems in the form of a product or a service now the funny thing is most Engineers are introverts as well so this kind of goes against The Stereotype that you have to be an extrovert in order to be a good leader and this is another thing that Susan Kane talks about in her book quiet the power of introverts she argues that in some case is extroverted behavior and people blindly following charismatic leaders is what leads to many of the disasters in the world such as the fall of Enron and the 2008 financial crisis she also talked about a study from Brigham Young where they found that there wasn't much of a difference in charismatic leaders and how well they did when they studied 128 CEOs of major companies and she also talks about some research in the book that suggests that introverts in many cases are actually better as Leaders so for instance as an introvert if you're managing proactive employees in many cases that can actually be better leaders that are introverted are more likely to listen to suggestions from proactive employees rather than dominating the situation like many extroverts do so it's kind of a yin and yang type situation where if you're an introvert you tend to be more introspective you tend to be better at listening to people and if you have a bunch of people who are kind of like proactive who are working under you they kind of just let them do their thing and this is actually exactly what I do in my business I just hire really smart people and then I just kind of leave them alone and let them do their thing and only give them support when they reach out to me and they need eat it and she argues that in many cases this leads to better outcomes and I would happen to agree with her so as you can imagine engineering absolutely dominates at the top of my college degree ranker list it's probably like 15 out of the top 30 or something like that so for instance if you type in mechanical engineer on LinkedIn at the entry level there's 40 000 results you type in civil engineer there's 50 000 in chemical engineer there's twenty three thousand mechanical engineers make eighty one thousand dollars a year civil engineers make 78 000 and chemical engineers make a whopping hundred and two thousand so yeah engineers make great money a lot of them are extroverts and it can be a great choice for the right type of person but with that being said engineering is absolutely brutal so keep that in mind because it's one of the hardest degree paths that you can go for next let's talk about a social science which is economics and you probably didn't think that I was going to include a social science on the list so economics can lead to a bunch of really high paying jobs and it can be a great opportunity for introverts introverts tend to be highly introspective as I talked about before and they spend a lot of time kind of thinking about how the world works and thinking about how different systems interact with each other and understanding basic economics especially microeconomics is an amazing way that you can sort of fundamentally understand how the world works now if you type in Economist on LinkedIn at the entry level you're going to see a 111 000 results but with that being said typically to become an economist you're going to need at least a master's level degree but with just a bachelor's there's other roles that you can go for so for instance Financial Risk analyst is one you could go for and that's about 6 000 results you could also become an investment analyst and that one's about 10 000 results and if you look on Glassdoor economists make 99 000 a year Financial Risk analysts make 82 000 and investment analysts make ninety nine thousand so yeah economics is another really good one keep in mind with this one that you really do need to plan out your career right this is not one where you can just go into it and kind of know that when you graduate you're going to be good to go kind of like an engineering degree you really need to plan things out and speaking of planning your college degree out I actually have an entire video dedicated to that that's going to show you step by step exactly how you can choose the perfect degree for you and I'll put that right here definitely check it out [Music] foreign [Music]