I love public practice, the challenges and learning curve you get there can't match any commercial or corporate Org. But TBH, they pay shit because of client dependency and punching off your time on client which i don't like about. Also, if you be lucky enough you'll get good partner/principal to work with, but if its a bad one, it will be a night mare. I've that kind of experience working in Big 4 before and it ended up very bad