If you could do it all over...

Knowing what you know now what career path would you have taken?

or

If you were me, what would you do for a career?

I spent the past 10 years flying a military jet, I'm going to a top 10 business school this fall. The ONLY experience I have outside of the military or high school jobs is a summer audit internship in 2005, so I am a pretty clean slate.

I have a family so I'm not considering investment banking or consulting. Everything else is fair game. I also have a preference for the state of NC.

Before anyone says, "well what do you want to do", I will say I am interested in your ideas not mine. I am extremely ignorant on career paths and I am using the next three months to answer that question for myself. I want to make sure I am not overlooking something just because I don't know about it.

Thanks!

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