Leveraged Credit Buy-Side to Sell-Side

Hi All,

Long time creeper (since early college days), first time posting. For context, I'm based in Europe, but not London.

Long story short - I'm a 2nd year analyst at a HY / leveraged loan shop. Pretty recognizable name in the US and I often see it being discussed on WSO, but our European HQ is not in London.

Being realistic with myself, I'm getting FOMO of not being in London and thinking of just making the jump. I'm feeling somewhat bored of HY buy-side. Every committee conversation feels the same and in general there is a handful of names the market and the firm like and no matter how much work we do on the other opportunities, its just not going to happen. Private deals haven't been all that much more engaging.

With that in mind, I'm thinking of jumping ship to the sell-side in London, probably credit - but who knows. Would be interested in hearing everyone's thoughts. Am I being dumb and just thinking the grass is greener on the other side? Obviously the hours will be different, but as a sell-side associate I think my hours would be somewhat similar to what I do as a buy-side analyst (very possible I am being naive here). I reckon the transition is possible and should be relatively easy. As I said, open to any comments and thoughts people might have.

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