Hi all,

I recently managed to do an internal transfer from ops to compliance advisory. However after a year in the role, I have never felt so stressful/mentally exhausted in my career since I started work in ops many years ago. Doesn't help when you have a small toddler who's always falling sick and u have to handle both family and work stress.

I'm now wondering if I should try to move into a buy side(fund manager/hedge fund) ops as many ex colleagues who did such move all said the work life balance is good, teams are family oriented and bonus not bad (2-4 months) as compared to big global banks (1-2 months at most and sometimes no increment).

However, would it seem stupid to move back to ops since it was not easy to move from ops to compliance in the first place?