What do you think about working for a family office? You’re sort of pigeonholed into that for life, no? If the family is huge, it may be worth working there?

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If you want to do fund accounting and accounting in general then it’s great wlb and decent pay. You will also gain skills to work at basically any other small/medium fund. So it depends what you mean by pigeonholed, if you have any aspirations of moving away from accounting then I would go a different route (FP&A, F500 back/middle office jobs). I have a relative that does all of the taxes and general accounting for a few family shops, she makes a nice living but also views herself as a small business rather than an employee.

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