Is FIG back office?

As an avid reader of WSO, I knew I was fucked from the moment I chose to go to public HS instead of private (think Taft, Hunter, Gonzaga). I reached out early and often, and even heard from one MD at a TMT boutique who offered me an internship the summer before my freshman year in college. Disgusted, I hung up the phone. Clearly he knew that I had worked at a consumer bank as a bank teller one summer, and if the moron had ever read WSO he would know that going from FIG to TMT is not possible, so I turned down his offer and blocked him on LinkedIn.

Fast forward four years and I finally got a BB FIG offer. The problem is that there aren't any exit opps from FIG. Literally, zero. Even sell-side jobs at BB fast food restaurants (think McDonalds, Wendys, Subway) wont let me lateral two years down the line because my experience is literally only relevant to FIG. I am certain of this.

Because I am religious (think Catholic, Protestant, Jewish) and cannot commit seppuko, nor will my family honor kill me with stones, I decided to take this role.

My question is does this make me back office? Like as a human being, am I back office now????

Feedback from certified Incoming Summer Analysts and Prospective Monkeys only please. I've fucking had it with these boomers who haven't read WSO since they were in HS coming on here once in a blue moon to lie to me.

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