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Experiences leaving the academy? How to even begin changing careers?

I feel simultaneously overqualified and underqualified for everything outside higher ed. How do you even begin to jump ship and find a different field? Anyone successfully leave the academy? Or, what are your experiences with desires to leave? Sticking it out?
gpt
I am seriously looking to leave due to the terrible politics involved in gaining funding. Ironically, in the biomedical sciences there are a number of options to work in non-profits or in government-funded scientific organizations that doesn't involve being a researcher per se, but in assessing and/or managing research grants and proposals (i.e. the dreaded admin), but these jobs are much more secure than those of academic researchers.

I may end up going to the dark side...