Take a postdoc job or leave academia

Hello everyone. A short explanation: I finished my PhD in physics but want to try something new, so I applied to postdoc in Neuroscience. I got an offer that is interesting, but causes issues with timing to live with my SO. I believe I want to be a prof, but I have never had a job that isn’t in a physics lab. This makes me worried my desire to be a prof is partially a result of ignorance and never having had a job “in the real world”.

So, I’m trying to decide if I should take this postdoc offer and have to deal with living apart from my SO later on while I finish the postdoc, or I explore jobs outside academia.

There isn’t a right answer to this, but I’m curious if anyone has thoughts they’d like to offer.

Thanks

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