Learning more about different career options

I'm in a fortunate position to be attending a top UK target university next year (Oxbridge/LSE) studying a heavily technical degree. Based on my future qualifications, I can enter pretty much any 'power' role I want (barring perhaps law and medicine). I enjoy working with people and with numbers - I consider myself to be a jack of all trades.

I live well below my means generally, but would of course like to be wealthy one day for my future family. Not to bothered about being wealthy in my youth - would rather have a better WLB to actually HAVE a happy family. Am happy investing majority of my income into investments/business ventures in my youth and generating wealth that way, but I understand doing this will not beat a combination of the two.

Problem is, I have no idea which career I find interesting, if any at all. 

These are the current careers I have thought about (ik there is some crossover):


IB

PE

HF

Quant

SWE

Consultancy

Entrepreneurship


All have their pros/cons, but I'm not entirely sure which of them I actually find interesting.

What reading can I do to figure out what career is best for me?

 

What year are you in school? What internships have you done?

"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
 

I, for example, recently set up my own company to make fences out of metal. I thought for a long time about what I could come up with. But in the end I realized that I wanted to do something that would make the world a better place. Today, many of my works decorate private homes and even some castles that have been restored in Europe on a daily basis. I would like to say that it was more difficult to come up with a name for this company than to implement it. I select through store name generator. Maybe someone will be interested. You need to understand what you really want and start moving in that direction. And also take into account what you like, because this case will accompany you throughout life.

 
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