Best Jobs For Former Crew Members [2023]

It’s tough to be a crew member 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 crew member isn’t necessarily dropping, fewer and fewer people are applying to become crew members in the first place and the workforce itself is looking grim.

With so many crew members 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 crew members 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 CREW MEMBERS

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 CREW MEMBERS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Sales Associate	5.48%
2	Cashier	4.51%
3	Customer Service Representative	4.15%
4	Server	1.42%
5	Assistant Manager	1.23%
6	Internship	1.22%
7	Certified Nursing Assistant	0.86%
8	Manager	0.83%
9	Sales Representative	0.83%
10	Associate	0.83%
11	Security Officer	0.75%
12	Shift Manager	0.74%
13	Machine Operator	0.7%
14	Volunteer	0.67%
15	Warehouse Associate	0.62%
16	Cook	0.61%
17	Warehouse Worker	0.55%
18	Administrative Assistant	0.53%
19	Customer Service Associate	0.5%
20	Shift Leader	0.5%
21	Office Assistant	0.45%
22	Supervisor	0.45%
23	Housekeeper	0.43%
24	Crew Trainer	0.43%
25	Home Health Aid	0.41%
26	Receptionist	0.41%
27	Customer Service Trainer	0.41%
28	Package Handler	0.4%
29	Technician	0.4%
30	Barista	0.39%
31	Material Handler	0.38%
32	Delivery Driver	0.38%
33	Team Leader	0.38%
34	Hostess	0.37%
35	Production Worker	0.36%
36	Manufacturing Team Member	0.36%
37	Pharmacist Technician	0.36%
38	Teller	0.34%
39	Crew Leader	0.34%
40	Driver	0.32%
41	Teacher Assistant	0.31%
42	Security Guard	0.3%
43	Ship Worker	0.29%
44	Medical Assistant	0.29%
45	Mcdonalds Crew Member	0.29%
46	Forklift Operator	0.27%
47	Picker	0.27%
48	Shift Supervisor	0.27%
49	Store Manager	0.26%
50	Assembly Line Worker	0.26%
51	Assistant	0.26%
52	Waitress	0.26%
53	Clerk	0.25%
54	Line Cook	0.25%
55	Assembler	0.25%
56	Prep Cook	0.24%
57	Direct Support Professional	0.24%
58	Cleaner	0.24%
59	Specialist	0.24%
60	Overnight Stocker	0.24%
61	Stocker	0.24%
62	Substitute Teacher	0.24%
63	Sales Associate And Cashier	0.22%
64	Packer	0.22%
65	Maintenance Technician	0.22%
66	Teacher	0.21%
67	Dietary Aide	0.2%
68	Front Desk Receptionist	0.19%
69	Call Center Representative	0.19%
70	Sorter	0.19%
71	Nanny	0.19%
72	Sales Associate And Customer Service	0.19%
73	Janitor	0.19%
74	Welder	0.19%
75	Agent	0.18%
76	Deli Clerk	0.18%
77	Picker And Packer	0.18%
78	Sandwich Artist	0.18%
79	Department Manager	0.18%
80	Operator	0.18%
81	Student Assistant	0.18%
82	Food Service Worker	0.17%
83	Student Worker	0.17%
84	Sales Consultant	0.17%
85	Customer Service Agent	0.17%
86	Order Selector	0.16%
87	Server And Hostess	0.16%
88	Research Assistant	0.16%
89	Technical Support Technician	0.15%
90	Sales Person	0.15%
91	Swing Manager	0.15%
92	Owner	0.15%
93	Truck Driver	0.15%
94	Crew Chief	0.14%
95	Farm Hand	0.14%
96	Maintenance Worker	0.14%
97	Attendant	0.14%
98	Stock Clerk	0.14%
99	General Manager	0.14%
100	Line Up Worker	0.14%

Most Common Jobs For Former CREW MEMBERS

These are all good jobs, all of them either utilizing some skill that a crew member 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 crew members to do.

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former CREW MEMBERS

Using resume information from our database of over 7 million resumes, we looked at all resumes that listed crew member under their work history. Then we looked at which jobs showed up on their work histories following their stints as a crew member, 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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