Best Real Estate Career

If you look at career paths and value them based on compensation, entrepreneurial, work life balance, and fulfillment, which role do you find is best? I am thinking development, private equity, brokerage, architectural but please include other roles.

Would love to hear thoughts from experienced people midway through career. Can you achieve the above in real estate?

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I would rank them:

1 (Tie). Development 2 (Tie). Acquisitions (REPE) 3 (Tie). Debt - High Yield Focused 4 (Tie). Investment Sales 5 (Tie). Asset Management (REPE) 6 (Tie). Debt - Vanilla, Commercial Debt

 
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