Best Jobs For Former Drivers [2023]

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

With so many 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 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 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 DRIVERS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Truck Driver	3.03%
2	Delivery Driver	2.25%
3	Customer Service Representative	1.44%
4	Security Officer	1.19%
5	Sales Associate	1.16%
6	Machine Operator	1.09%
7	Forklift Operator	0.86%
8	Cashier	0.86%
9	Technician	0.84%
10	Warehouse Worker	0.68%
11	Equipment Operator	0.68%
12	Supervisor	0.67%
13	Over The Road Driver	0.63%
14	Sales Representative	0.59%
15	Assistant Manager	0.59%
16	Owner/operator	0.58%
17	Material Handler	0.58%
18	Operator	0.58%
19	Cdl Driver	0.58%
20	Maintenance Technician	0.56%
21	Bus Driver	0.54%
22	Internship	0.54%
23	Warehouse Associate	0.53%
24	Driver/owner Operator	0.53%
25	Manager	0.51%
26	Owner	0.51%
27	Route Driver	0.48%
28	Server	0.48%
29	Operations Manager	0.39%
30	Helper/driver	0.38%
31	Welder	0.38%
32	Mechanic	0.38%
33	Associate	0.37%
34	Dispatcher	0.35%
35	Warehouse/driver	0.34%
36	Transportation Driver	0.33%
37	Motor Coach Operator	0.32%
38	Courier	0.31%
39	Team Leader	0.31%
40	Service Technician	0.31%
41	Driver Trainer	0.31%
42	Cook	0.31%
43	Merchandiser	0.3%
44	Administrative Assistant	0.3%
45	Customer Service Trainer	0.29%
46	Company Driver	0.29%
47	Package Handler	0.29%
48	Certified Nursing Assistant	0.27%
49	Installer	0.27%
50	Heavy Equipment Operator	0.27%
51	Volunteer	0.27%
52	Security Guard	0.27%
53	Production Worker	0.26%
54	Assembler	0.26%
55	Home Health Aid	0.24%
56	Truck Driver Class A	0.24%
57	Crew Member	0.24%
58	Warehouse Manager	0.24%
59	Tractor-Trailer Driver	0.24%
60	Clerk	0.23%
61	Field Service Technician	0.23%
62	Cdl Class A Driver	0.23%
63	Sales Person	0.23%
64	School Bus Driver	0.23%
65	Substitute Teacher	0.23%
66	Forklift Driver	0.22%
67	Local Driver	0.21%
68	Operation Supervisor	0.21%
69	Lead Driver	0.2%
70	Maintenance Worker	0.2%
71	Cleaner	0.19%
72	Office Manager	0.19%
73	Specialist	0.19%
74	Shuttle Driver	0.19%
75	Custodian	0.19%
76	Driver Supervisor	0.19%
77	Store Manager	0.19%
78	Class A Driver	0.19%
79	Motor Transport Operator	0.18%
80	Courier Driver	0.18%
81	Emergency Medical Technician	0.18%
82	Line Haul Driver	0.18%
83	Stocker	0.18%
84	Correction Officer	0.18%
85	Order Selector	0.18%
86	Self-Employed	0.17%
87	Farm Hand	0.17%
88	Instructor	0.17%
89	General Manager	0.17%
90	Bus Operator	0.17%
91	Electrician	0.17%
92	Sorter	0.16%
93	Tank Driver	0.16%
94	Agent	0.15%
95	Office Assistant	0.15%
96	Helper	0.15%
97	Ship Worker	0.14%
98	Foreman	0.14%
99	Account Manager	0.14%
100	Teacher	0.14%

Most Common Jobs For Former DRIVERS

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

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former DRIVERS

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