Just Started my career at Big 4 Risk Advisory am I doomed for a life of mediocrity?

Basically just graduated from a non-target school and started my professional working life doing quite mundane work and worried that I might amount to nothing.

Will my life only amount to low six figures? Will I significantly strain my home life trying to make partner but eventually get passed over for someone who is a lot my competent than me? Will my wife eventually leave me because she realized the only reason she married me was because she was alone in an east village bar at 28?

Looking for some serious tips on how to break out of this cycle from the gurus here, (Low key sarcasm but low key not really)

Thanks in advance!

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