I need advice, feeling lost in my career. I have just over 5 years experience in audit at B4. Going on 2 years as Controller for a $100M, PE backed company. The grind here is boring to me and I'm not fulfilled in my work. As a result of that, I don't try hard which then leans me to make dumb mistakes and makes me feel like I suck at this job. Felt like I was a rockstar while at B4. Feel like I have a good amount of options available but still want to try to maximize earnings...continued

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I would probably follow your list of options in that exact order lol. If you think the equity is worthwhile, grind it out for a bit. Then try one more industry gig. If your next industry gig is not fulfilling, consulting is your best bet.

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I view options as:

1. Stay here and put more effort into the work, knock out a couple more years until PE sells and my equity options get cashed out.
2. Make the jump to a larger (probably public) company as a SM/asst controller/divisional controller and see if a larger company provides me more happiness in my work.
3. Jump back to B4 or Consulting. I wouldn't want to go back to auditing, so accounting advisory although I think some sort of controllership consulting or management consulting I would enjoy more.

Any thoughts/advice or things to consider are appreciated.

Also adding, I currently am underpaid. Could probably jump to another industry role and make around 30-35% more (about $40k). My question in current income is the value of my options which I think would be worth around $200k+ in 2ish years upon a change in ownership.

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