These Are The 10 Most Exciting Jobs For Former Owner/Operators

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

With so many owner/operators 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 owner/operators 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 owner/operators:

These are all good jobs, all of them either utilizing some skill that a owner/operator 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 owner/operators 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 owner/operators:

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 Owner/Operators

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

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Detailed Ranking of the Most Common Jobs of Former Owner/Operators

Job Title	Rank	%
General Manager	1	1.1%
Operations Manager	2	1.06%
Manager	3	1.05%
Customer Service Representative	4	1.03%
Owner	5	1.01%
Sales Associate	6	0.97%
Office Manager	7	0.88%
Project Manager	8	0.88%
Driver	9	0.83%
Maintenance Technician	10	0.79%
Administrative Assistant	11	0.74%
Sales Representative	12	0.71%
Store Manager	13	0.67%
Substitute Teacher	14	0.62%
Supervisor	15	0.58%
Assistant Manager	16	0.58%
Truck Driver	17	0.56%
Technician	18	0.48%
Sales Manager	19	0.47%
Consultant	20	0.44%
Registered Nurse	21	0.39%
Sales Consultant	22	0.37%
Account Executive	23	0.35%
Teacher	24	0.35%
Service Technician	25	0.33%
Account Manager	26	0.33%
Cashier	27	0.32%
Service Manager	28	0.32%
Welder	29	0.32%
Team Leader	30	0.32%
Server	31	0.3%
Superintendent	32	0.29%
Security Officer	33	0.28%
Delivery Driver	34	0.28%
Equipment Operator	35	0.28%
Operations Director	36	0.27%
Machine Operator	37	0.27%
Volunteer	38	0.26%
Assistant Store Manager	39	0.25%
Field Service Technician	40	0.24%
Associate	41	0.24%
Business Developer	42	0.24%
Owner/Manager	43	0.23%
Operator	44	0.23%
Internship	45	0.23%
Foreman	46	0.23%
Specialist	47	0.23%
Vice President	48	0.22%
Maintenance Supervisor	49	0.22%
Heavy Equipment Operator	50	0.2%
Sales Person	51	0.2%
Property Manager	52	0.2%
Electrician	53	0.2%
Mechanic	54	0.19%
Program Manager	55	0.19%
Director	56	0.19%
President	57	0.19%
Customer Service Trainer	58	0.19%
Office Assistant	59	0.18%
Instructor	60	0.18%
Agent	61	0.18%
Cook	62	0.18%
Operation Supervisor	63	0.18%
Certified Nursing Assistant	64	0.18%
Business Development Manager	65	0.18%
Facilities Manager	66	0.17%
Coordinator	67	0.17%
Chief Executive Officer	68	0.17%
Production Manager	69	0.16%
Forklift Operator	70	0.16%
Lead Technician	71	0.16%
Executive Chef	72	0.16%
President/Owner	73	0.16%
Production Supervisor	74	0.15%
Maintenance Manager	75	0.15%
Bartender	76	0.15%
District Manager	77	0.15%
Painter	78	0.15%
Real Estate Agent	79	0.15%
Sales/Marketing	80	0.15%
Installer	81	0.15%
Company Driver	82	0.14%
Systems Administrator	83	0.14%
Realtor	84	0.14%
Construction Manager	85	0.14%
Technical Support Specialist	86	0.14%
Sales Associate And Customer Service	87	0.14%
Administrator	88	0.13%
Director Of Sales	89	0.13%
Home Health Aid	90	0.13%
Department Manager	91	0.13%
Merchandiser	92	0.13%
Purchasing Manager	93	0.13%
Emergency Medical Technician	94	0.12%
Carpenter	95	0.12%
Executive Assistant	96	0.12%
Case Manager	97	0.12%
Field Technician	98	0.12%
Clerk	99	0.12%
Graphic Designer	100	0.12%

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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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