The jellies above are right that you can roll it over to an IRA account. Your company might already have their 401k accounts at Schwab, Fidelity, Meryl Lynch, or one of the well known finanical institutions. If you are happy with how they have handled the funds you can just call them directly and they will help you roll it over. If you want to move the funds to a different financial institution you talk to them. You also can leave the 401k where it is if you want and just start an IRA wherever you want. People say it’s better to roll it over, but I have one 401k I never bothered to rollover from 15 years ago. I keep saying I will eventually do it, but I haven’t so far. I have from other jobs and it was easy to do.
You don’t have to worry about comingling before tax and after tax money as @zenvelo mentioned in a traditional IRA, a lot of us have funds comingled like that in IRA accounts even if all the money was always directly put into an IRA. If you put post tax money in an IRA there is a special form you do with your taxes at the end of the year. If you don’t make over a certain amount of money your IRA contribution will still be pretax anyway. Although, I say you don’t have to worry, it is more forms and math to deal with, when the money comes out of the account when you retire. All I meant by not worry is there is a way to handle it, many people have to deal with, because ince your income gets too high you can’t put pretax money in an IRA anyway.
It gets more tricky if you want to do a Roth IRA, or if you wind up converting to a Roth IRA in the future. If you have an interest in doing the Roth IRA then I suggest reading up on it a little or discussing with your accountant which IRA he thinks is best for you. A Roth lets you put post tax money in the account, but you don’t have to pay taxes when you pull the money out when you retire. The traditional IRA you are taxed when you pull the money out. I assume you can convert rollover money once in an IRA, but I am not 100% sure about it. The negative of course is you will get taxed now if you convert to a Roth, a big lump sum, which you probably don’t want to do with the current money you have in your 401k.