How are you guys figuring it out?

Current senior that wasn't able to get a return from SA because of economy and market and blah blah blah - I've been looking for ib and ib adjacent jobs, but it doesn't seem like anything is popping up. Hate that I'm stressing about it around the holiday times but was wondering how you guys are faring and what your thoughts look like on this. Planning on even trying to network with REPE shops or infra just for a chance to have some sort of role that could look could. Also, have any of you guys heard of someone taking a unique job out of college, like say saffron farming and then using those experiences and talking points and going to something like MBB or VC?