skills and talent mean nothing to NTs if you cant sociallize

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I have veterinary technician skills that I learn during college years. I have heard oh you have a lot of heart for this, you will do well in clinic. But after I graduated I still sit with no job. Yeah I do go and do my continuing education credits. Its so discouraging to see a lot of people that have a job in a veterinarian office and I feel like I am lonely. I have heard you don't have enough experience or you are to over qualified from it too I do lurk for a job on different hiring sites. I just feel like my skills are wasted :/

But I am creative with drawing and photography. Probably going to do work in it once I am good at using my future camera and photoshop

That's certainly the impression I get of much of the IT industry and office environments in general (I also suspect that non-office settings might be more likely to be more focused on the actual work rather than on people). I am wondering if I will ever be able to find computer-related work, despite the fact that I am very good with computers (especially programming). It seems to me that most places want conventional, business-minded team players, not eccentric individualists with great technical skills but poor business and social skills (especially if you're living in an area with relatively few IT-related companies, where a lot of programming work seems to be internal business application development). I want to be more or less left alone to do what I do well, not be expected to conform to a culture and mindset that are completely opposite of mine in almost every way imaginable (freelancing might be an option, but because quite a bit of the programming work in my area is developing internal business applications, I would still run into some of the same problems sometimes).