Best Jobs For Former Teacher Assistants [2023]

It’s tough to be a teacher assistant nowadays, and more and more of them are losing confidence in their own profession.

While the amount of people majoring in courses preparing people for a job as a teacher assistant isn’t necessarily dropping, fewer and fewer people are applying to become teacher assistants in the first place and the workforce itself is looking grim.

With so many teacher assistants no longer sticking around, this begs the question:

What are they all doing now?

We were curious, so we looked through the resumes of former teacher assistants to see what kind of jobs they were moving into after leaving the field. There were thousands of answers, so we made the cutoff at the top 100 jobs.

But given that there are some very surprising and interesting items on this list, we’ve decided to highlight a few of those instead.

Best Jobs For Former TEACHER ASSISTANTS

Some of these items are admittedly more attractive than one another as far as actually working the job goes, but one way or another, you’ve got to admit they’re eye-catching.

The full list of those jobs can be found below.

Detailed Ranking of the Most Common Jobs of Former TEACHER ASSISTANTS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Teacher	4.85%
2	Sales Associate	2.36%
3	Substitute Teacher	2.31%
4	Lead Teacher	2.13%
5	Customer Service Representative	2.13%
6	Cashier	1.84%
7	Internship	1.83%
8	Administrative Assistant	1.71%
9	Preschool Teacher	1.27%
10	Volunteer	1.09%
11	Special Education Teacher	1.03%
12	Research Assistant	0.84%
13	Server	0.79%
14	Office Assistant	0.76%
15	Assistant Manager	0.67%
16	Nanny	0.66%
17	Tutor	0.63%
18	Receptionist	0.63%
19	Certified Nursing Assistant	0.63%
20	Home Health Aid	0.55%
21	Office Manager	0.53%
22	Head Teacher	0.42%
23	Medical Assistant	0.42%
24	Case Manager	0.41%
25	Student Teacher	0.38%
26	Manager	0.37%
27	Assistant	0.35%
28	Sales Representative	0.35%
29	Teacher Aide	0.34%
30	Teaching Assistant	0.34%
31	Customer Service Trainer	0.33%
32	Coordinator	0.31%
33	Assistant Director	0.3%
34	Associate	0.3%
35	Pharmacist Technician	0.29%
36	Supervisor	0.28%
37	Instructor	0.28%
38	Pre-K Teacher	0.27%
39	Special Educator	0.27%
40	Specialist	0.25%
41	Security Officer	0.24%
42	Hostess	0.23%
43	Teller	0.23%
44	Registered Nurse	0.22%
45	Director	0.22%
46	Kindergarten Teacher	0.21%
47	In-Home Childcare Provider	0.21%
48	Graphic Designer	0.21%
49	Front Desk Receptionist	0.21%
50	Program Coordinator	0.21%
51	Direct Support Professional	0.21%
52	Aide	0.2%
53	Speech Language Pathologist	0.2%
54	Counselor	0.2%
55	Consultant	0.2%
56	Instructional Assistant	0.2%
57	Program Manager	0.2%
58	Team Leader	0.19%
59	Ship Worker	0.19%
60	Secretary	0.19%
61	Owner	0.18%
62	Student Internship	0.18%
63	Special Education Assistant	0.18%
64	Crew Member	0.18%
65	Waitress	0.18%
66	Infant Teacher	0.18%
67	Customer Service Associate	0.17%
68	Marketing Internship	0.17%
69	Group Leader	0.17%
70	Aba Therapist	0.17%
71	Social Work Internship	0.17%
72	Personal Assistant	0.16%
73	Barista	0.16%
74	Toddler Teacher	0.16%
75	Clerk	0.16%
76	Residential Counselor	0.16%
77	Graduate Assistant	0.15%
78	Social Worker	0.15%
79	Program Assistant	0.15%
80	Store Manager	0.15%
81	Student Assistant	0.15%
82	Sales Associate And Cashier	0.15%
83	Math Teacher	0.15%
84	Graduate Research Assistant	0.14%
85	Housekeeper	0.14%
86	Adjunct Instructor	0.14%
87	Head Start Teacher	0.14%
88	Office Administrator	0.14%
89	Mentor	0.14%
90	Operations Manager	0.14%
91	Bus Driver	0.14%
92	Adjunct Professor	0.13%
93	Executive Assistant	0.13%
94	Teacher Associate	0.13%
95	Technician	0.13%
96	Billing Specialist	0.12%
97	Sales Associate And Customer Service	0.12%
98	Dental Assistant	0.12%
99	Researcher	0.12%
100	Private Tutor	0.12%

Most Common Jobs For Former TEACHER ASSISTANTS

These are all good jobs, all of them either utilizing some skill that a teacher assistant would have or being a stepping stone to a different career.

Here’s the thing about these jobs though — they’re pretty much exactly what you’d expect a lot of former teacher assistants to do.

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former TEACHER ASSISTANTS

Using resume information from our database of over 7 million resumes, we looked at all resumes that listed teacher assistant under their work history. Then we looked at which jobs showed up on their work histories following their stints as a teacher assistant, sorting them by their most frequent.

That’s how we made the initial ranked list.

To make our list of most interesting jobs, we looked through the ranked list to see if any positions:

Showed up in fewer than 1% of all new jobs
And, were not part of the 100 most common jobs in our database

Author

Chris Kolmar

Chris Kolmar is a co-founder of Zippia and the editor-in-chief of the Zippia career advice blog. He has hired over 50 people in his career, been hired five times, and wants to help you land your next job. His research has been featured on the New York Times, Thrillist, VOX, The Atlantic, and a host of local news. More recently, he's been quoted on USA Today, BusinessInsider, and CNBC.

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