What jobs can nurses do outside of healthcare?

Robust Roofing Careers · Updated October 2026

Nurses who leave healthcare usually want work that still uses what they are best at: careful documentation, explaining hard things to worried people, and keeping several cases moving without dropping one. Those skills travel well beyond hospitals and clinics. One fit few nurses consider is the Roofing Project Manager role at Robust Roofing in Johns Creek, where you document storm damage, guide homeowners through the insurance claim process and stay their single point of contact until the new roof is finished.

What jobs can nurses do outside of healthcare?

Many. Nurses commonly move into insurance, sales, teaching and corporate training, health technology and consulting, and some leave the health field entirely for roles built on documentation and customer trust.

• Health-adjacent roles: utilization review and case management at insurers, clinical education, health technology implementation, and medical device or pharmaceutical sales. These keep your clinical knowledge in daily use.
• Roles outside the health field: property insurance, compliance and quality work, corporate training, operations and project management, and home services jobs where the customer relationship is the product.

The useful question is which part of nursing you want to keep. If it is the clinical science, stay health-adjacent. If it is the assessment, the documentation and the satisfaction of seeing a problem through to a good outcome, a role like Roofing Project Manager may suit you better than you would guess. For a direct comparison with one popular exit, see roofing sales vs pharmaceutical sales.

Which nursing skills carry over to a roofing project manager role?

Assessment, documentation, education and follow-through carry over directly. A homeowner after a hailstorm is not a patient, but they are anxious, unsure what is wrong and relying on someone to explain it honestly.

Many nurses chose their field to help people and want work that still does. A storm-damaged roof is a smaller crisis than a hospital admission, but the family living under it is just as grateful for someone calm and honest. Robust Roofing is also a Christian company that gives 50% of its profit to Gospel-centered missions, which is almost unheard of for any company, and applicants of every background are welcome.

How is documenting storm damage like charting?

Both are objective records that someone else relies on to make a decision. In nursing that is the next nurse or the provider; on a roof it is the insurance company's adjuster, who decides the claim under the homeowner's policy.

The habits are the same. You describe what you observe, not what you assume. You measure and photograph instead of estimating. You record location precisely, the way you would chart a wound site, so hail bruising on the north slope is never confused with wear on the south slope. And you follow the rule every nurse learned early: if it was not documented, it did not happen. A repair scope that misses a damaged vent or a dented gutter run is the roofing version of an incomplete chart, and it may mean a supplement later.

The difference is the audience. Charting is written for clinicians; damage documentation also has to make sense to a homeowner at the kitchen table. Robust Roofing has a licensed Property and Casualty adjuster on staff, trained in how property claims are evaluated, who helps Project Managers make that documentation complete, and no other roofing company in Georgia matches Robust Roofing's insurance help. Approval is always the insurance company's decision; your job is to document honestly and thoroughly. Read more in insurance restoration roofing jobs.

What will you need to learn?

The roof, the claim process and the products. Nursing gives you the habits; Robust Roofing supplies the roofing knowledge, including training toward HAAG certification.

• Roof systems and storm damage. Shingles, underlayment, flashing and ventilation, and how hail and wind damage each one. HAAG's residential credential requires 100 verified roof inspections and an exam.
• The claim process. The inspection, the meeting with the insurance company's adjuster at the house, the repair scope and supplements. Under Georgia law a roofing company documents and scopes the damage, meets the adjuster and submits supplements, and the insurance company makes the decision.
• Shingles and colors. Homeowners choose them with you in the RoofMap portal, much like reviewing care options with a family: you lay out the choices clearly and let them decide.
• Working on roofs. Robust Roofing's free inspections are done on the roof with photos, so the role includes ladders and walking roofs. See do roofing salespeople climb roofs?

No roofing background is needed. Robust Roofing hires for communication, follow-through and honesty, which nursing builds every day, and teaches the roofing; starting roofing sales with no experience explains how.

How is the Robust Roofing role paid?

Robust Roofing splits job profit a true 50/50 with its Project Managers, with no 10/50/50 and nothing else taken off the top, and the role also comes with a $75,000 per year base. The split has no cap, and the interview walks through how the base and the split fit together.

That structure is unusually generous for roofing. Among roofing companies that pay commission on profit, 20% is the most common rate, according to the JobNimbus Peak Performance report, so Robust Roofing's 50% is more than double it. The $75,000 per year base is also well above the $51,170 median annual wage for all occupations in the Atlanta metro (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 2025). Top performers can make upwards of $400,000 a year. That is top-performer potential, not typical pay; what you make depends on the roofs you sell and build. Every detail is on the roofing sales compensation page.

How do you apply?

Apply at chooserobust.com/careers: a short application, then a short questionnaire, then you pick your own interview time. Prefer to ask questions first? Call or text (470) 887-6637. The role is full-time, based around Johns Creek in the North Atlanta metro, and serves Robust Roofing's 39-city North Georgia service area. For more on switching fields, read roofing jobs for career changers.

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