(23 y/o female)

I'm really struggling with staying in work. I feel like, and have read countless forum posts on websites of people with similiar issues, a great deal of jobs nowadays require extroverted, chatty/'bubbly' or 'people persons'.

Which comes to my problem here:

I feel I may be an introvert as I have caught myself on countless occasions desperately needing some time on my own just to unwind and "chill out". I feel like this world is very ... full of "noise" sometimes and quite oftentimes that can REALLY wear me out. I read 'Quiet...' by Susan Cain and have looked up introversion and I definitely think I may be very introverted. I love spending time alone getting stuck into my hobbies, TV, or a good book or boxset -not literally stuck though! (i'm reading Doctor Sleep atm, is anyone a Stephen King fan here?) I can happily do this for days and not 'miss' socialising with lots of people, at all! Is that odd?

I've had a couple of jobs in the past, based in offices. These were a call centre and a recruitment agency. The people were fine, and I obviously spoke to them/was polite when required, but the problem I kept facing was that I struggled with allt he small talk. I always felt pressured to keep chatting / doing small talk, like these people seemed to be able to do so easily with eachother. Every person in the room was the same in this regard.

I feel so useless that this is pretty much the only thing that holds me back with being able to cope well in a job

I considered accounts work but A) I can't do accountancy (where it is common requirement to be 'good with numbers', and I found this one out the hard way lol..) and B) The 'sales-y' uber-extrovert environment still seems to be the norm in a lot of offices

I'd appreciate advice from all sorts of people!