Private credit or Investment banking

I currently work at a domestic (India) private credit fund ($2.6bn AUM) as an associate but the salary is peanuts but great W/L balance.... I have been approached by Rothschild IB for a senior analyst role and they pay ~2x on the fixed and min 89% variable but crazy hours
Long term i want to move to a large private equity....
Question - should I take the IB role and try for PE a year later? Or stay here and try to interview with PEs directly

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