This chapter reconceptualises ‘exiting’ as career development. Developed through the interface between Chapters 2 and 3 and building on our key arguments in Chapters 4 and 5 , this chapter applies a career framing using case studies, interview data and secondary sources to demonstrate how the idea of career development rather than ‘exiting’, allows us to consider the ways in which these programs can align with traditional career transitioning and development programs. Career development programs focus on assisting a person’s entry into a new occupation and skills development for supporting progression within a chosen profession or skills transfer and training for moving into a different field. In this chapter, we shift from debates about regulation and the focus on gendered inequalities related to heterosexuality (tied to morality politics), to sex work as career, and thus as work (tied to social inequalities and labour market dynamics). This chapter is a provocation to reconceptualise ‘exiting’ as career development, and in it we argue this is necessary if sex work is more clearly reconfigured within a career framework. Ultimately, this new framework allows us to recognise the socio-economic, political and cultural forces shaping career choices, while simultaneously challenging the deviance and victimhood framings that dominate discourse and policy in this area. Alongside this, we argue for the need to explore the role of stigma and criminalisation in shaping the ongoing need for these services and developing a grounded model for understanding what ‘exiting’ might look like when sex work is recognised as a valid career choice.