FoF PE career prospects

its my 4th month into the role as an investment analyst in a large US PE FoF (1 yoe) but the role is quite skewed towards investment operations rather than being on the deal team, its rather discouraging to me now but would like to understand if this is common in other PE firms? where the analyst is mainly doing the tailend work and where do i stand when it comes to applying to assoc role? or should i attempt to transit out as soon as I get a next opportunity - help and advise needed thank you!!

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