Anyone leave public for a senior level position and regret not staying until manager?

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No. Titles don’t mean anything in industry — years of experience are what matter. You might see someone from PA accept a manager title, but then have no one below them to supervise so they’re preparing everything themselves. Are they really a manager? No, they’re glorified staff. They don’t have anyone below them because they wouldn’t be able to explain how to prepare work papers from scratch (it’s not the same as reviewing a client’s work). It’s best to take a senior role to truly learn everything and then grow into the manager role, which a lot of people in PA don’t realize because they get hung up on titles. Just because you were a manager in PA, doesn’t mean you’ll know how to be a manager in industry.

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Amen senior 1

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To add, plenty have not

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Plenty have

Your mileage may vary

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