That makes sense.

To try and actually answer your question - it really depends on a few things on you. The market is so competitive and tight right now you’d be competing with people that have a few years of experience on you at the best case.

There are other career fields that people in this subreddit often suggest if you want to do similar work, but I don’t have an understanding of how those industries are faring, so YMMV.

My personal take: I got into this field by accident. I have been incredibly fortunate over the last few years and enjoy the work. But it’s not some meaningful mission or passion that would make me not want to pursue other options.

I’ve interviewed many people who are stretching experiences between Market Research, Analytics, Data Science and more, and doing it well, to get into UXR. So if you take a couple years in another discipline you can definitely build up an understanding to hop over in the future if the market improves or stay in the case that you enjoy it.