Job Options (Help me Decide - first job)

After a long year of grinding, I ended up with basically two options:

Option 1: JLL/CBRE in Tier 2 market

Option 2: AM at fast growing REPE shop that is probably getting hurt right now because of buying so much.

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Option 1: I will have to relocate to a city that I probably wouldn't want to be in longterm. Plus the market is a wasteland for brokerage and base is low. No clue what all in would be.

Option 2: Keeps me near home, tier 1 city. Don't want to be in AM as a career. base is 70-75k with 18-22% bonus

I am struggling to make this decision and neither really seem ideal. If I started in institutional brokerage I might make barely anything but could probably get an option 2 job easier. Neither comp is really exciting to me tbh. Kinda disappointing but what would you choose?

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really? I’ve always heard institutional brokerage had the better path to good acquisitions. it’s a smaller growing company.

 

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