Why can't I even get an interview?

To preface, I just graduated from a state school in May with a B.S. in Finance, My overall GPA wasn't the greatest (3.3's) because in my freshman year I was majoring in International Business and I was terrible at German, so I changed to finance and found out I am really good at numbers and loved all of it. 

I got A's in every finance course, ended up becoming the president of our finance club for 3 years straight (even got a plaque from the university for being the longest standing president of a university-sponsored organization ever, apparently), did tons of case studies and research projects and placed 3rd nationally in the CSBS annual case study competition, and even led a consulting project with a team of 12 grad and undergrads where I helped an insurance firm incorporate AI throughout their departments, along with timelines, cost-benefit analyses, integration challenges and risk mitigation techniques, etc. I was on our equity investment fund and made my magnum opus, self-authored 76-page report on TSM and another 136-page report on XOM along with succesfull motions for purcases of 140 and 260 shares, respectively. Hell I even saved up enough money outside of paying my own tuition, rent, and getting married at 20 to get a certification from MIT xPro in Designing and Building AI Products and Services and did good enough their admissions office called me asking if I would consider more advanced curriculum with 25% of my tuition covered by them (which was a childhood dream but heartbreaking I still could not afford it).

All that to say I really love this field and want to work in either consulting or AM, but I can not get an interview to save my life. I have been applying to jobs since last August. I have applied to THOUSANDS of jobs from basic commercial credit analyst roles, which I already had a 6-month internship doing, to dream roles in AM or consulting. I have had phone calls with executives and been lucky enough to get coffee with heads of departments at EY, Deloitte, BlackRock, and other companies. Now I am considering starting my own consulting firm because my run of bad luck is at this point comedic and I just cannot catch my break yet. On top of that I may be 22 but I am married, I have bills to pay and a mother I want to be able to help financially. Do you have to have a damn MBA just to get an interview today, or hell even an email back from some of these companies?

If anyone has any advice or just words for me I am all ears. Even a joke at this point lmao, I just need to make something happen because I am becoming increasingly depressed and have even started to get gray in my beard and hair.

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You'll have to hit up alumni or start in a temp/intern position to FT offer. 

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

Yea I’ll probably need to focus on the temp/intern route especially as I’ve moved away from my home state immediately following graduating for my wife’s work and my alumni network here is pretty much null and void. It’s a bit of a bummer because the internships seem to be starting next summer and I’d At least like something here now.

 

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