The Sunk Cost of a PhD

I feel as if some careers you were your pot committed or you're stuck and you've gone too far down this route where there you can't perfectly switch. A lot of interesting work now is happening outside of academia but the riskier thing is the academic part so yeah it's needed stuff for sure. I got a lot of things we got to but do we want to break it up into separate no let me let him say one thing about the academia like part.