Job Search Round 2: Grad Options for breaking into IB

Looking for advice on how to break into IB as a non traditional.

I'm 24 and didn't get in while in college. Brief story. I'm an immigrant from a refugee family, grew up in the the ethnic part of NYC for people like me, went to a good city high school, went to NYU. Once I got to college, I fucked up. Graduated with a 3.2 in economics. I'm not as scholastically dumb as my grades would suggest (relevant only as far as future plans/abilities go, in the same vein I was an A student up until college as well), but I'll be the first to admit I was a shitty worker at the time. I had some unfortunate outside circumstances (heavy personal illness, major illness in the family) as well as some things that were completely my fault (drug addiction, not really giving a fuck about grades). All I had in terms of work was a shitty but long term BB PWM internship I sleepwalked into.

I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. To be honest, like some quite a few dumbasses my age, I thought the best plan would be to YOLO it up and be dead by my early 20s. Things didn't work out that way. So following drug recovery, a couple suicide attempts and finding a girlfriend who genuinely cares about me succeeding and believes in me for some reason (hard to call her a gold digger because when we met my prospects were pretty 0, and are still in that range), I started getting my shit together. Too little too late. Found out what IB was senior year and despite my best attempts to network and get in, I fucked up.

Got so far as to make it to an analyst superday at a boutique, but in retrospect was completely unprepared and didn't get it. Since then I bounced around a few bulshit jobs, but am currently a paralegal. It pays the bills, but I don't need to tell you the work sucks. This isn't meant to be a sob story, so my bad if it sounds like one. I'm the one who fucked up so I have no intention of sympathy whoring.

Basically, help me figure out what to do next. Which is to say, I've got a few ideas but could use input on which one is realistic.

My first plan is/was law school, the universal wishing well of desperate kids who have no idea what they're doing. After working in a law firm for a year, I have somewhat of a feel for how the environment is. It sucks, but I'm willing to put up with it to make good money. Grades are certainly an issue, but I got a 174 on my first practice LSAT without knowing anything about the test. This is about top 0.5% and more than enough to get me to a good school, most likely. Took another to see if it was a fluke, nope. I have little doubt with studying I can get a perfect score or a point or two away from it. Like I said before, I have a knack for school/tests. From here the hope would be to transition to IB either right out of school (very unlikely, but not impossible) or after a few/many years of practice (somewhat less unlikely but still really damn unlikely). Would also try for consulting out of school, with an eye towards PE or industry exit. A whole lot of "ifs" here but I don't lack confidence in my abilities when it comes to the non luck parts, although the thought of having to luck out so many times in a row for the other factors does make me uneasy.

Second thought is master's in finance. I'd do it in a heartbeat if I thought it would help, but I can't figure out whether the sort of program I could get into is worth it or is just a diploma mill. I hear master's in finance institutions are like law schools: a few with good results and a majority that are a total joke.

Another thought was go for an MBA, which would make way more sense in every single way and has lower 25/75 GPA ranges, but where my main issue would be getting good enough work experience. I have no idea what kind of job there is that takes people for entry level positions a couple years out of college and still has the potential to get them to management. Any help on this point would be especially appreciated. I'm willing to get whatever certifications or learn whatever skills are necessary. Time is not much of an issue and with my savings, lack of student loans and low living costs money isn't much of one. I'm willing to take out 200k of loans for something if it's investment rather than consumption and procrastination.

If everything I have in mind is retarded, feel free to mention your own thoughts on what I should do. Any variation on "kill yourself" is bound to be hilarious, but I appreciate life a lot more than I used to so it's likely to fall on deaf ears (you can always pray otherwise tho). After my shit 4th world farmer childhood, working at 7/11 and spending 100% of my free cash on weed and video games doesn't sound too bad as a backup plan, but I'm intent on taking another bite at the apple as long as there's any shot of me succeeding, which so far there is. Weed and video games will still be there if I keep being a fuckup another couple of decades.

TL;DR: 3.2 GPA NYU econ grad with year of experience as paralegal. What job can I aim for (preferably in NY) that I have a reasonable chance of getting and would, with good performance, put me on a management track which I can use for MBA apps?