Should I do mezz while the markets suck?

I currently work at a large multi-strategy hedge fund that I joined out of undergrad in a group that does mainly large PIPE investments in public companies and small opportunistic PE deals (~$50mm investment). Due to the market, the deal activity is on hold. Mainly spending my days monitoring our public and private holdings. However, my firm is raising a large new mezz fund with some guys we brought over from the mezz group at a mega-cap PE firm (Carlyle, BX, BainCap). Once the fund is raised, there'll be tons of deal activity - mainly doing financial sponsor deals. If I have an eye to do larger cap PE long-term, and I can move to the mezz group, should I do it for the deal experience? Or should I stay put where I am currently, looking at tons of smaller PE deals but not actually doing them. Is it tough to get out of mezz and back into PE?