Not personal experience in the sense that I took that route, but in the sense that I know plenty of people in positions like that.

Then again, fuck some anonymous dude on the internet like me - for all you know I could be a bored 13 year old pimply-faced teenager in Boca Raton trolling would-be academics online during his civics class. Check out job posts for postdocs on university websites, your eyes will start welling up when you see the salaries advertised there.