Non target guidance

(age:22) alr I will make this short. I'm in Canada just finished undergrad (business admin finance) at a non target lesser known with not so good GPA and didn't have any internship experience. I did have leadership experience in my schools finance club and did partake in a case comp but that's about it. also did some modelling training. Have ups and downs with coffee chats mainly because I got really tierd of hearing the same "we're not hiring" line, or getting ghosted after submitting my resume which I know has shitty experience.

I've pretty much accepted that my chances of getting into something like IB or PE are pretty much 0, and now I am going for a CSC license to hopefully become a financial advisor. Is this the right move, I am the type of person that does want to go as far as they can in said field and would love to go into wealth advising, though I know that's a challenge to get into as well. Basically just need pointers, all is appreciated. Also I do understand that I did this to myself with the low gpa and no internship experience, and bad school, but trying to do the best I can now since I can't really go back. I really do want to get into this field and I have a hard time letting go.

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