Consulting or PM after undergrad?

Hi everyone. I know this post has been made a number of times but I wanted to ask it again in the lens of post undergrad.

I’m a junior in college and have been aiming for consulting for some time now. After being pretty burnt out from previous consulting adjacent internships and mostly striking out for consulting roles this summer, I landed a product internship at a F50 teleco.

This role has me pretty excited, but I wanted to ask how this might affect my career trajectory. I know a lot of people want to exit to product after consulting, but also the advice on these forums is to do consulting after undergrad to build up the skill set. If I want to stay in product/tech strategy, am I in a good position? If I want to do consulting after my product internship for full time recruitment, will I have that option? With AI changing the consulting landscape, is still a good place to aim for post grad (given how competitive it is)?

Thanks!

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