Best Jobs For Former Technicians [2023]

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

With so many technicians 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 technicians 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 TECHNICIANS

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 TECHNICIANS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Maintenance Technician	1.19%
2	Customer Service Representative	1.02%
3	Field Service Technician	0.92%
4	Sales Associate	0.81%
5	Service Technician	0.75%
6	Lead Technician	0.7%
7	Owner	0.56%
8	Supervisor	0.55%
9	Internship	0.53%
10	Manager	0.53%
11	Mechanic	0.51%
12	Engineering Technician	0.51%
13	Project Manager	0.5%
14	Senior Technologist	0.48%
15	Technical Support Specialist	0.47%
16	Computer Technician	0.47%
17	Administrative Assistant	0.46%
18	Machine Operator	0.45%
19	Field Technician	0.45%
20	Electronics Technician	0.45%
21	Registered Nurse	0.44%
22	Assistant Manager	0.44%
23	Security Officer	0.43%
24	Driver	0.43%
25	Systems Administrator	0.42%
26	Pharmacist Technician	0.39%
27	Laboratory Technician	0.37%
28	Cashier	0.37%
29	Electrician	0.35%
30	Engineer	0.34%
31	Team Leader	0.33%
32	Installation Technician	0.33%
33	Test Technician	0.32%
34	Sales Representative	0.31%
35	Medical Assistant	0.31%
36	Specialist	0.31%
37	Network Technician	0.31%
38	Server	0.3%
39	Material Handler	0.3%
40	Welder	0.3%
41	Network Engineer	0.3%
42	Technical Support Technician	0.3%
43	Operator	0.29%
44	Certified Nursing Assistant	0.29%
45	Owner/operator	0.27%
46	Forklift Operator	0.26%
47	Associate	0.25%
48	Research Assistant	0.25%
49	Volunteer	0.25%
50	Assembler	0.24%
51	Office Manager	0.24%
52	Field Engineer	0.23%
53	Quality Control Inspector	0.23%
54	Operations Manager	0.23%
55	Service Manager	0.22%
56	Systems Engineer	0.22%
57	Manufacturing Technician	0.22%
58	Repair Technician	0.22%
59	Network Administrator	0.22%
60	Information Technology Technician	0.22%
61	Consultant	0.22%
62	Information Systems Technician	0.22%
63	Licensed Practical Nurse	0.22%
64	Maintenance Supervisor	0.21%
65	Installer	0.21%
66	Automotive Technician	0.21%
67	Information Technology Specialist	0.2%
68	Delivery Driver	0.2%
69	Assembly Technician	0.2%
70	Substitute Teacher	0.19%
71	Technical Supervisor	0.19%
72	General Manager	0.19%
73	Truck Driver	0.19%
74	Emergency Medical Technician	0.19%
75	Teacher	0.18%
76	Mechanical Technician	0.18%
77	Customer Service Trainer	0.18%
78	Warehouse Associate	0.18%
79	Account Manager	0.18%
80	Warehouse Worker	0.18%
81	Coordinator	0.17%
82	Store Manager	0.17%
83	Production Technician	0.17%
84	Surgical Technician	0.17%
85	Foreman	0.16%
86	Operation Supervisor	0.16%
87	Analyst	0.16%
88	Cable Technician	0.16%
89	Production Supervisor	0.15%
90	Hvac Technician	0.15%
91	Equipment Operator	0.15%
92	Shift Supervisor	0.15%
93	Instructor	0.15%
94	Electrical Technician	0.15%
95	Test Engineer	0.15%
96	Diesel Technician	0.14%
97	Crew Member	0.14%
98	Program Manager	0.14%
99	Inspector	0.14%
100	Case Manager	0.14%

Most Common Jobs For Former TECHNICIANS

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

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former TECHNICIANS

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