Crowdsourcing My Career Path

Give me a PM and we can set up a call to talk about it. Did IB -> Family Office. 

Two things I would advise:

1. Really should just call people at the different end destinations and that will help you understand the differences. This forum just won't be thorugh enough and people don't know what they are talking about. I think people will talk to you given your background and anyone with IB experience can empathize with the decision you are facing.
2. Family offices are very odd. Ultimately it is the PM's world and you are living in it. This creates extreme variance where some are shops with wealthy people with no clue what they are doing who also are abusive and others are shops where you can get close exposure to brilliant senior leadership. Even large ones have smaller teams and very different investment horizons than traditional funds. This is a mixed bag of less deal flow (you aren't mandated to deploy capital, so you are more choosey) and generally you get exposure to broader asset classes and longer horizon strategy. It depends what you are going for and what your goals are. Comp also is highly variable.