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AHEM... AHEM...
I'm a 28-year-old HYPSM graduate who has an IQ of 143 (tested and SAT I regression). I studied liberal arts because I was researching religion (KJV best book),
doing substances, and chasing women in college. I ended up getting just an okay GPA and now have limited employment opportunities. I still live with my family in the countryside. It's bad. I'm trying to re-roll into med school.
I'm an INTJ. Although I don't think MBTI is clinical, it gives an okay heuristic. However, life is mostly about working really hard at each rung of the selection process. For example, when I lived in the US in high school, all the strivers were trying to have a 4.8 weighted GPA, get high SAT I, II, and AP scores,
extracurriculars, etc. to get into good private schools with scholarships or at least get free tuition at a state school. I passed that test. In college, however, the freedom inherent in the "adult" experience led me to fall off the horse while other giga-geniuses were studying comp. sci, petroleum engineering, biochem, etc. and getting high MCAT, LSAT, GRE scores, etc, networking, or going to work for something like Goldman Sachs out of college. I failed that test.
You have to re-evaluate what can be done with intelligence and hard work. Finance is a credentialism-based field. You need an Ivy+ degree with good grades and great interpersonal skills. You probably didn't do that. I would suggest learning to be a software engineer instead because that is more meritocratic and not credentialism-based. If I couldn't use my high school GPA and free education in yurop to re-roll into med school and eventually go back to the US as someone very late to the game, I would just self-study the MERN stack and learn math. However, I have that one option that can realistically pan out.
Stop being idealistic. Figure out your human genetic potential and then make a plan for striving towards a reachable goal, even if you're late. This "alpha"/"beta" dichotomy is stupid.
