jobs for introverts

option 1: librarian

option 2: kill yourself

I'm an introvert and I've done sales and customer service and loved both, but wasn't too keen on some of the teams I worked with.
The pressure and targets were fine, talking to customers was fine because I focussed on professionalism not my personality! But sometimes the internal competition wasn't good because other people took my introversion to mean that I'm stuck-up and if I congratulated them on sales, they took offence, if I didn't loudly celebrate my own sales, they took offence etc.
It's definitely not for everyone, but I can honestly say being an introver may well make you pretty good at it, if you can find the right sort of environment to do it in!

I am fully aware of what an introvert is and I have attempted to escape my introversion, by working as a marketing associate in an office, left because it was to robotic and mundane, and now working as a hotel receptionist, which is far to extroverted for me, I have to greet people with a 'bubbly' attitude face to face. Thats why I'm trying to reevaluate what kind of jobs I can get.

I have tried to go down this path as it is very easy to get into, but I found out I'm not a persuasive person so I'm just not good at sales.

Would you like me to teach you the difference between 'to' & 'too'?

It would still be worth looking at customer service if you are struggling for other ideas - it's much more about patience and just sitting there taking what the customer wants to say than persuading them of anything. I thought I wasn't persuasive at all, but I bother to learn the facts of the product I'm selling (not saying you don't, just most people I worked with didn't, and relied on "personality") which meant I did as well as anyone else, if not better on occassion.
Otherwise there are plenty of admin roles in offices that require minimum involvement with the public, athough admittedly they're more restricted even than customer service in terms of progression. Or even secretarial stuff - you'd need to be able to talk to your boss, but I'd imagine if you found a secretarial/PA role rather than a receptionist one, you'd not have much interaction with other people.

I am fully aware of what an introvert is and I have attempted to escape my introversion, by working as a marketing associate in an office, left because it was to robotic and mundane, and now working as a hotel receptionist, which is far to extroverted for me, I have to greet people with a 'bubbly' attitude face to face. Thats why I'm trying to reevaluate what kind of jobs I can get.

Also I'm in my final year of university and I know I will have this exact problem when I graduate.

Arrogant people like you give us a bad name, just stop.

I don't think you can just 'escape' your introversion, but at the same time, burying yourself in it doesn't seem like a great idea either. Although I agree that where you have to be 'on' and 'bubbly' all the time probably wouldn't be quite right (it's a good way to burn out as an introvert-after all it's exhausting doing all that people-ing), there's no reason either to go to the other extreme and go for a job you can hide away in.

For one thing, in terms of careers you won't progress far if you just hide away in your solitary job. Soft skills like dealing with people are really important in any work place in this day and age. In my opinion, the best thing is to look for jobs where you can have a good balance-i.e. sometimes you will be required to work with people and sometimes you will have to go and work alone on your own. I find that works for me in my part time job; when I'm serving customers it's often not for long periods so I've been able to build on putting on a 'bubbly' front to the point where I'm comfortable with it without feeling exhausted by it being constant. I deal with people for a bit and then often I get to go off and recharge by doing some stuff on my own for a bit.

I highly recommend reading 'Quiet, the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking' to get some sense of using your introversion to your advantage and working around the parts that clash with the somewhat extroversion focused society we happen to live in.