Re: “most of the people who are in banking and consulting are on a scale of unhappy to miserable” — I wish more aspiring and present MBA students read this line. When I was an undergrad, a good friend of mine wanted to get a prestigious banking job badly. Eventually he got it and worked for Morgan Stanley for one year. It was the most miserable year in his life. He quited one year later. No more prestigious banking job. No more career path. He was lost, wandered around, unemployed for a year. Eventually he figured it out.

Today, his carer is thriving because he simply chose to work on something he is genuinely interested in and has a talent for.