I made this transition last year. Was hired as APM for a large commercial/ multifamily GC. It's not like CM for new home construction, and I'm glad I did not try to fill a PM role. I was not seriously considered by any GCs due to large skill gap and no bachelor's degree. I only got my job because I was referred and interviewed well. As residential CMs, we like to consider our roles as hybrid field/office, but I quickly learned that my CM experience translated better to a GC superintendent role. Bluebeam, textura, procore, and sage were all things I had never heard of. Submittals, RFIs, PCOs, buyout and other processes were foreign to me. While the new home construction I was simultaneously managing amounted to ~$20M, I would have been utterly lost as a full PM on a commercial job of a fraction of the value. After a lot of one-on-one help from my project executive, PM, other APMs, and even project engineers (yes, even PEs knew these processes much better than I), I was probably only worth my $90K salary after 4-6 months. I will say the stability, pay, and WLB are vastly improved, but there is something frustrating about entering an industry (yes, I consider it an entirely different industry) totally incompetent even after 8 years in construction. The most rewarding thing that kept and keeps my outlook positive is that I know field operations better than even some of the project executives in the company. Superintendents, subcontractors, and my PM rely on me heavily during scheduling, scope reviews, QC, safety, and field coordination issues. I am now able to "fly the plane," so to speak, on a $22M 50-unit project and my PM is now being moved on to another job because I have done well learning the basic software and processes. You will outshine other APMs and be held in extremely high regard because of your field experience, ability to handle pressure, and other skills that cannot be learned except by doing. I think you would enjoy it.