Facing a financial & consulting dilemma

Greetings all, I'll get straight into it, I am an engineering student, I've been planning into going into management consulting (mbb) at the start of my career then exit after 2-3 years. I have been fond of finance since I was young, therefore I studied for the cfa level 1 exam and passed, and I have registered for level 2, I participated in the CFA Research challenge and achieved runner-up, I impressed everyone there, and built quite a reputation, I recently received 7 offers from financial companies (IBs, PEs, asset managment, etc...), thus I started getting into this dilemma, should I accept one of the offers, should I get into management consulting and continue my CFA journey, should I ditch the CFA, should I go into mbbs and specialize in financial services and PE or a general consultant should I go into asset management or IB, I am particularly fond of asset management, because the knowledge that I will gain will be helpful in a personal level, and will allow me to be a better investor. Would love to hear from you guys.

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