There is hope... - Self-employment is a perfectly viable option. (Consulting on long-term projects, for example, can involve going off to do a lot of research

There is hope... - Self-employment is a perfectly viable option. (Consulting on long-term projects, for example, can involve going off to do a lot of research on your own, just reporting back at the end.) - You say you might be able to work with another person, so another option is founding a very small company. (Theoretically you could hold out for only the kind of person that you're comfortable working with.) - There are remote positions which involve long stretches without interacting with your co-workers. (I'm talking days and days, even weeks and weeks.)