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Advice for someone seriously considering quiting a post doc

I started my post doc close to a year ago. It was my dream post doc with who I thought would be perfect mentors. But, you guessed it: bad mentors! At first I thought the issue was me: "I'm new so I don't get the lab culture yet", "I work on this project that functions very differently from the rest of the projects in lab so that's why I feel out of place and unmentored"... Then slowly I started realizing that the red flags I was trying to explain as something about me or circumstancial were actually symptoms of a toxic lab environment brought on by toxic mentors. The covid pandemic highlighted a lot of the toxic behavior even more and recently their toxicity has been more directly targeted at me and my work. 

So I've reached a breaking point where I've decided I want to leave, but I'm not sure how or where. Spoke to some friends in industry and that's a possibility of course, but I'm scared of taking that exit and hating it. (biggest concern is little freedom to ask my own questions)  But ultimately I guess I hate where I am in academia now (and I'm also not asking my own questions here either! For much less pay than industry) so it's not very different. I could consider another post doc but I worry I'll run into another toxic environment. Another issue is that my current mentors are well known and I feel like leaving them will put me on an academic black list in my field. I also have guilt leaving academia as a POC who had always enjoyed mentoring students, and thought I could be part of increasing representation in STEM. Someone once told me that if all the good people leave academia it  keeps self selecting bad people. While I get that point, at what cost does that come for the good people who stay?

After this rambling post I guess I want advice on transitioning either to a new post doc or to industry.
gpt
You're trying to make a decision between a known bad and an unknown unknown.  It's basically impossible.  So just start applying for other jobs, postdocs *and* industry, right now.  You're not committing to anything until the moment you sign a new contract.  Apply widely, accept every interview you're offered, see what jobs exist, and see what's open to you.  Find out what your actual, real, concrete options are and then decide whether they're better than where you are.