Don't Want to do PE anymore after Banking

Hey everyone - wanted to get your advice. I'm currently a 1st year analyst at a BB (GS, MS) with a MF PE offer lined up. I was super excited about the opportunity at the time but I've had a pretty bad experience in banking, stemming from the nature of the work (don't really find modeling interesting, don't like sitting in front of excel all day). I've always been interested in entrepreneurship and have had some relatively successful projects in the past but at the end of the day I want to take on a role that gives me both exposure to different industries and ideas while also giving me some time to think about it. If PE is great for entrepreneurship, I'll stick it out. But have others been in a similar position? What did you do? Consulting? Corp Dev?

 

Keep in mind, entrepreneurship doesn't have to be the whole 'creating a revolutionary new idea/product/service that is infinitely scalable.' You can still make more than one would in IB by smaller entrepreneurship projects. For example, I met somebody who started a company in the farming industry, and he is insanely successful. He just found his niche and went all in on it. 

 

That's sick - it's just hard to come up with good ideas right now when I'm working like 9-12am consistently. Would love to learn more about diff. industries and problems but not sure what the best way to do that is

 

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