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It's rare for someone to have the self awareness or honesty that you have and be bottom bucket.

People look fondly at private equity experience (from a resume perspective) and it is great additional training for the rest of your life. Personally I would do PE for 2 years (if at a half decent place), then transition to something you could do for the rest of your life. Can optionally go to business school if that is advantageous to your career / you want to have fun. I would assume you would be set up pretty nicely to do just about anything in finance.

That being said, I haven't considered strategy / finance myself, so there is a chance they don't give you credit for your PE years, or its actually harder to recruit from PE than from banking. I would do first hand research on linkedin and determine yourself.

 

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