Best Jobs For Former Delivery Drivers [2023]

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

With so many delivery drivers 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 delivery drivers 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 DELIVERY DRIVERS

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 DELIVERY DRIVERS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Driver	3.0%
2	Sales Associate	2.08%
3	Customer Service Representative	1.9%
4	Truck Driver	1.39%
5	Cashier	1.37%
6	Server	1.08%
7	Machine Operator	1.03%
8	Security Officer	0.91%
9	Assistant Manager	0.91%
10	Sales Representative	0.79%
11	Warehouse Worker	0.76%
12	Manager	0.74%
13	Forklift Operator	0.72%
14	Technician	0.69%
15	Material Handler	0.66%
16	Internship	0.66%
17	Warehouse Associate	0.62%
18	Route Driver	0.59%
19	Associate	0.52%
20	Maintenance Technician	0.45%
21	Supervisor	0.42%
22	Service Technician	0.4%
23	Cook	0.4%
24	Package Handler	0.38%
25	Substitute Teacher	0.37%
26	Operator	0.36%
27	Security Guard	0.35%
28	Crew Member	0.35%
29	Owner/operator	0.34%
30	Administrative Assistant	0.34%
31	Volunteer	0.33%
32	Owner	0.33%
33	Cdl Driver	0.32%
34	Customer Service Trainer	0.31%
35	Installer	0.31%
36	Merchandiser	0.31%
37	Welder	0.3%
38	General Manager	0.3%
39	Equipment Operator	0.3%
40	Assembler	0.3%
41	Team Leader	0.29%
42	Operations Manager	0.27%
43	Shift Manager	0.26%
44	Ship Worker	0.26%
45	Assistant	0.25%
46	Store Manager	0.25%
47	Transportation Driver	0.25%
48	Shift Leader	0.25%
49	Warehouse Manager	0.24%
50	Customer Service Associate	0.24%
51	Office Assistant	0.24%
52	Courier	0.23%
53	Line Cook	0.23%
54	Field Service Technician	0.23%
55	Bus Driver	0.22%
56	Specialist	0.22%
57	Delivery Driver/warehouse	0.21%
58	Over The Road Driver	0.21%
59	Mechanic	0.21%
60	Helper/driver	0.21%
61	Technical Support Technician	0.21%
62	Production Worker	0.2%
63	Dispatcher	0.2%
64	Shuttle Driver	0.2%
65	Waitress	0.2%
66	Shipping And Receiving Clerk	0.19%
67	Custodian	0.18%
68	Mail Clerk	0.18%
69	Research Assistant	0.18%
70	Order Selector	0.18%
71	Installation Technician	0.18%
72	Computer Technician	0.18%
73	Account Manager	0.18%
74	Cleaner	0.17%
75	Motor Transport Operator	0.17%
76	Sales Person	0.17%
77	School Bus Driver	0.17%
78	Technical Support Specialist	0.17%
79	Teacher	0.17%
80	Graphic Designer	0.16%
81	Office Manager	0.16%
82	Landscaper	0.16%
83	Certified Nursing Assistant	0.16%
84	Clerk	0.16%
85	Field Technician	0.16%
86	Service Representative	0.16%
87	Prep Cook	0.15%
88	Project Manager	0.14%
89	Manufacturing Team Member	0.14%
90	Pharmacist Technician	0.14%
91	Receptionist	0.14%
92	Press Operator	0.14%
93	Agent	0.14%
94	Electrician	0.14%
95	Cdl Class A Driver	0.14%
96	Machinist	0.14%
97	Assistant Store Manager	0.14%
98	Janitor	0.14%
99	Forklift Driver	0.13%
100	Stocker	0.13%

Most Common Jobs For Former DELIVERY DRIVERS

These are all good jobs, all of them either utilizing some skill that a delivery driver 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 delivery drivers to do.

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former DELIVERY DRIVERS

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