Help me decide: Commercial Banking vs. CDO Trustee

I'm coming out of a structured finance background, 1 year out of school. What would be a better job in terms of exit opportunities and great B-school profiles:

(a) a commercial banking financial analyst role (origination and credit risk management of bank loans at a large regional thrift (think low 20s in terms of market cap ranking)

(b) a CDO trustee analyst position at a top 10 banking institution. I'd like to stay in structured credit but the future looks kind of bleak (to say the least) and its specialization pretty early in my career.

Compensation is similar, with (a) being slightly higher. So what do you folks think? (Yes, I do realize that neither role falls into any of the typical roles usually discussed on here).

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