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Depends how long you have been doing it and what you are willing to sacrifice to exit

Apply to entry level roles at other places/roles. You’ll be competing against undergrads so you have a good chance. Scrub your resume of any SAP reference and highlight your other skills.

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If you don’t mind me asking, what has you so eager to leave the SAP practice? Just curious because I have an interview for a SAP consulting role next week

Basically.

Spent 5 years on SAP projects, hated it, then networked into an op model project and hustled. Interviewed for other firms using this experience and got interesting non-SAP offers.

Forever thankful to the person who took that initial chance on me.

Can we connect? Definitely need to pick your brains here.

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