Career Escape Maps

Your experience may travel farther than your job title

Explore alternative careers based on what occupations actually require people to do and know, using the O*NET 30.3Database rather than somebody’s list of suggestions.

Or compare the destinations against each other

The Opportunity Atlas puts every mapped transition side by side on skills overlap, day-to-day work, wage, projected growth, openings and the size of the training step. It does not rank them: those dimensions disagree with each other, so you pick the one that matters and it orders by that, and says so.

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Or start from the conditions you want, not the job you have

If what you want to leave behind is the work itself — the deadlines, the customers, the desk, the noise — the maps above start from the wrong end. The Work Context Index compares occupations by how the work is actually performed, using O*NET’s own measurements of contact with people, pressure, autonomy, physical demands and environment.

Compare careers by how the work is actually performed

Or start from what you studied

If the thing you have is a qualification rather than years in a role, the maps above have nothing to start from. The Degree to Occupation Map begins at the field you studied and shows every occupation the official NCES and BLS crosswalk relates to it, with what each pays and what education its workers typically hold.

Explore careers related to your field of study

Arrived here thinking about your age?

These entrances answer the question the way it is usually asked. The maps they lead to are the same ones above: nothing in Career Escape is ranked or filtered by age.

What these maps do, and where they stop

These maps use occupational data to identify adjacent work. They do not determine whether an individual person qualifies for a specific opening.

O*NET records what occupations require: the skills, knowledge, and work activities rated important for each one, and the level of preparation typically expected. From that we can say honestly that two occupations share a great deal of their work, and show you exactly which parts. What no occupational dataset can say is whether your particular record of experience satisfies what one employer wrote in one posting. That is a different question, and it is where RoleSprint starts.

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How these maps are built

This page includes information from the O*NET 30.3 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. RoleSprint has modified all or some of this information. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications. Analysis generated 2026-09-02 from the O*NET 30.3 Database. Entry education, work experience, and on-the-job training are reproduced from BLS Employment Projections Table 5.4, Education and training assignments by detailed occupation, 2024, published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Available maps

Or compare the destinations against each other

Or start from the conditions you want, not the job you have

Or start from what you studied

Arrived here thinking about your age?

What these maps do, and where they stop