These Are The 10 Most Exciting Jobs For Former Electricians

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

With so many electricians 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 electricians 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.

The full list of those jobs can be found below.

Here’s a quick look at the top ten most common jobs for former electricians:

1. Maintenance Technician
2. Journeyman Electrician
3. Maintenance Electrician
4. Electrical Foreman
5. Technician
6. Electrical Technician
7. Owner
8. Electronics Technician
9. Project Manager
10. Field Service Technician

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

Here’s the thing about these jobs though — as a list, they’re kind of boring as hell. They’re pretty much exactly what you’d expect a lot of former electricians to do.

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

Here are some of the most interesting jobs of former electricians:

1. Maintenance Technician
2. Electrical Foreman
3. Technician
4. Electrical Technician
5. Owner
6. Electronics Technician
7. Project Manager
8. Field Service Technician
9. Service Technician
10. Maintenance Supervisor

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.

How We Determined the Most Common Jobs of Former Electricians

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

That’s all for how we did it — below you’ll find the full ranked list of the most common jobs of former electricians.

Detailed Ranking of the Most Common Jobs of Former Electricians

Job Title	Rank	%
Maintenance Technician	1	3.96%
Journeyman Electrician	2	3.24%
Maintenance Electrician	3	1.74%
Electrical Foreman	4	1.59%
Technician	5	1.54%
Electrical Technician	6	1.07%
Owner	7	1.01%
Electronics Technician	8	0.96%
Project Manager	9	0.94%
Field Service Technician	10	0.94%
Service Technician	11	0.91%
Industrial Electrician	12	0.86%
Maintenance Supervisor	13	0.79%
Lead Electrician	14	0.72%
Master Electrician	15	0.72%
Foreman	16	0.69%
Instrument Technician	17	0.68%
Owner/Operator	18	0.65%
Supervisor	19	0.61%
Sales Associate	20	0.58%
Controls Technician	21	0.58%
Electrician/Mechanic	22	0.51%
Electrical Supervisor	23	0.49%
Maintenance Manager	24	0.47%
Apprentice Electrician	25	0.47%
Machine Operator	26	0.47%
Electrician Technician	27	0.44%
Mechanic	28	0.44%
Electrical Superintendent	29	0.41%
Manager	30	0.41%
Driver	31	0.41%
Installation Technician	32	0.4%
Marine Electrician	33	0.38%
Engineer	34	0.37%
Field Technician	35	0.36%
Self-Employed	36	0.35%
Lead Technician	37	0.35%
Handyman	38	0.34%
Superintendent	39	0.34%
General Contractor	40	0.33%
Journeyman	41	0.33%
Avionics Technician	42	0.33%
Forklift Operator	43	0.33%
Field Engineer	44	0.31%
Installer	45	0.31%
Electrical Contractor	46	0.31%
Security Officer	47	0.31%
General Manager	48	0.3%
General Foreman	49	0.3%
Truck Driver	50	0.29%
Team Leader	51	0.29%
Electrical Engineer	52	0.29%
Operator	53	0.29%
Service Manager	54	0.27%
Ie Technician	55	0.27%
Assembler	56	0.27%
Mechanical Technician	57	0.26%
Engineering Technician	58	0.25%
Controls Engineer	59	0.24%
Facilities Manager	60	0.24%
Instrument And Electrical Technician	61	0.24%
Carpenter	62	0.24%
Customer Service Representative	63	0.23%
Welder	64	0.23%
Operations Manager	65	0.23%
Senior Electrician	66	0.23%
Service Electrician	67	0.22%
Electrician Helper	68	0.22%
Chief Engineer	69	0.22%
Electrical Maintenance Technician	70	0.22%
Repair Technician	71	0.21%
Construction Manager	72	0.21%
Maintenance Engineer	73	0.21%
Commercial And Industrial Electrician	74	0.2%
Chief Electrician	75	0.2%
Facilities Technician	76	0.2%
Equipment Operator	77	0.2%
Electrical Inspector	78	0.2%
Electrician Supervisor	79	0.2%
Industrial Maintenance Technician	80	0.2%
Delivery Driver	81	0.19%
Volunteer	82	0.19%
Journeymen Electrician	83	0.19%
System Technician	84	0.19%
Test Technician	85	0.18%
Instrument Fitter	86	0.18%
Production Supervisor	87	0.18%
Electrical Assembler	88	0.18%
Control Electrician	89	0.18%
Hvac Technician	90	0.18%
Material Handler	91	0.16%
Underground Electrician	92	0.16%
Assistant Manager	93	0.16%
Rig Electrician	94	0.16%
Heavy Equipment Operator	95	0.16%
Store Manager	96	0.16%
Journeyman Wireman	97	0.15%
Maintenance Superintendent	98	0.15%
Building Engineer	99	0.15%
Senior Technologist	100	0.15%