Feeling pigeonholed due to past internships

Hey everyone, for my past few summer internships, I keep getting jobs at start-up incubators and accelerators due to graduating with a biology-related bachelor’s degree in 2024 (with a finance minor). I’ve been accepted into a higher ranking US based MSFinance program recently with a very high scholarship (pretty much paying next to nothing and I’ll be living with family).

However I feel like compared to many of my other classmates who have previous internships in IB, wealth management, etc, I’m kind of lost on what to do next or what types of fields would value my previous internship experience (FWIW, In my past internships, they’ve never really extended return offers to any of the other interns). As a result I was wondering if anyone on here had suggestions for different career paths I should look into as I’m networking that would potentially make use of my internship background?

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