So just make sure that you have at least an idea of how you will get some sales that involve minimal interaction with other people.
Yes and no. The good thing about the internet is that you can get a decent sales funnel without having to talk to a single person. Write interesting blog posts on relevant topics, help others by showing how to solve their problem with your product, etc. There's a lot to learn here for a techie nerd, but the learning curve here is much easier for those who aren't naturally good at dealing with people.
Writing blog posts is about 10% of my job.
Most of the time I'm either doing live screensharing sessions with people or writing code.
Keep in mind, this is working as someone who helps other people solve their individual problems, not so much selling a SAAS application.
I say this as someone who had no problem getting jobs, but social anxiety made me desire the idealized notion of working in my home office and seldom conferring with people -- just delivering great solutions with every waking moment.
I started my own business and quickly discovered that about 80% of my time was courting and talking to people. People love talking. Getting someone to commit to a sale is often just a brutal enterprise.
From a time perspective, the advice to write pertinent blog posts just isn't really that lucrative anymore.
Same here.
>People love talking. Getting someone to commit to a sale is often just a brutal enterprise.
You just need to distinguish the types. The type that just loves talking is usually obsessed with self-importance and doesn't really care about the solved problems. You can talk them into a sale if you schmooze them good enough, but as a nerd you have a few chances. The type that appreciates great solutions doesn't care about chit-chat more than you do, but they are harder to reach because they are usually busy solving problems. There's a separate long story why the first type is better at forming hierarchies and obtaining political pull, but long story short, you need to focus your funnel on the second type. If the central part of your site is your smiling picture and a phone number, you'll attract the former. If it's a product trial, well-organized documentation and tutorials, the latter will be your catch.
In any case I seek to find work that I would be happy with, and where my current soft skills wouldn't prevent me from doing so.
In the professional sense, I have pretty good interactions with people at work, and generally considered to be a reliable worker. But social faux pas are judged ever more harshly at job interviews.