Asking for little career advice

Hello,

Hope everything is doing well. Before I go into any sort of explanation of my small dilemma, I will give a quick background of myself. I attended a no name university and graduated with a bachelors in finance and minor in accounting. Landed two internships during undergrad; a regular corporate finance internship, and operations analyst investment banking internship at a foreign bank. I graduate in May of 2021 and landed a full time gig at a small firm as an execution trader.

I know that I would like to be an investment analyst, and I am afraid of being pigeonholed into operations and being an execution trader (despite it being early in my career). I have been looking intensively for a new position and managed to get an offer for a midsized PE FoF position as an investment analyst. I have heard some very negative thoughts on working in a FoF, but I am considering it as it is will get me away from being an execution trader. Any ideas as to weither I should keep searching and stay in my current position until I find a better offer? Or should I take the offer as it is more related to investment analysis and will get me out of being an execution trading position?

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