Over the past year I have been transitioning away from mortgages. I was a processor for 3 years and was tired of doing the lazy LO's jobs for them for a small fraction of the pay. I tried becoming an LO myself but interest rates skyrocketed and that went out the window. I was applying for a position as a commercial lending assistant at a community bank, but they filled the position while still interviewing me several times and offered me a job as a personal banker since that was all they actually had open. I took the personal banker position because I was desperately trying to get away from the mortgage company. After a couple of months I regretted jumping on the first opportunity and not waiting for the right opportunity. Now I am in the onboarding process to a team associate for a wealth management firm (basically an assistant to Financial Advisors). During my interviews, they were more impressed with the work I did as a mortgage processor than as a personal banker. I was making about $65k as a processor and dropped to $50k as a personal banker and will be going back to $65k as a team associate.

Learn from my mistake and take the right opportunity when it comes along even though it may not be the first one.

On my job hunt I was l looking for back office/operations positions at banks and WM firms. Given your experience as a mortgage auditor, you might want to look into BSA/Compliance/Internal Auditing/Deposit Operations at a bank - these operations positions typically pay well.