advice needed for a very unusual resume

apologies first; it's really a long, complicated story.

I'm an INTERNATIONAL STUDENT, W/O PR NOR ANY DOMESTIC/US NETWORK, graduating cum laude two terms early in this June as a math-econ major at a non-target liberal arts college

with full (but limited by school policy due to my nationality) merit scholarships (3.6/4.0 with seven 500-600 level courses and zero 100 level major-related course),

with 50-pg major thesis written over 4 weeks (Inflation impact analysis through my own model, fully calibrated through Python, using some basic concept of the DSGE-NKPC model I self-taught; evaluated to be a "MA level")

and 130-pg honors thesis on political-legal theory written over 5 weeks (kinda neo-Kantian perspective approach to natural law and positive law; currently in an official evaluation process; expecting summa cum laude; personally evaluated to be a "2nd-3rd year phd dissertation"),

both of which I wrote after coming back to college in Sep 2024 after 6 years of leave of absence.

skills: PPT/Excel/SQL/Python/R/Stata + CFA 1 (I just crammed for 5 weeks and passed it 5 years ago, so I don't remember any of the pure finance theory)

10-ish years of work experience as a:

20-early 30s: self-employed education consultant/tutor (teaching TOEFL/SSAT/SAT/AP/IB/A-level and revising prep school/college/grad school applications; longest role)

early 20s: 1-1.5 years of special aide/adviser in the senate and the presidential committee, respectively (again, I'm not a US citizen)

mid 20s-late 20s: 1-1.5 years in institutions at

financial product analytics fintech whose clients are HFs, BBs, and EBs in the states (the ONLY work experience in the US);

2-tier non-Big4 consulting (strategy);

MBB (PMI DD);

2-tier Asian RE AM (industry&public market research);

and MM PE (PMI DDs for live deals; one closed deal).

I could be hired only as a contract or project RA due to a lack of the undergrad degree (there is a lame labor-contract law in my country), but I was always positioned to lead juniors because senior managers and MDs personally recognized my unofficial work experience; I usually reported/delivered ends directly to MDs or partners.

mid 20s: 3 months of an online platform startup (drafted the whole teasers in both Eng and my country language over 6 weeks, including all top-down and bottom-up analyses, signing 6 MOUs, and 3-pillar pronged BMs; pitched to several accelerators and early-stage VCs and secured $70K out of the seed funding target $200K; so I folded the whole business)

late 20s: published an introductory investment guidebook for individual investors during the stock market boom that followed the COVID (I self-taught through reading 300-400 books over two years and started investing at 24 to make money for my daily expenses, medical bills(I had a huge car accident at 15), and college tuitions and fees)

~ present: came back to the freelancer and then returned to college

After unvoluntarily living as a freelancer more than a decade, I now want to be "employed" 😂

I'm interested in the entrance/1st year role—since I'm graduating from college next month—in management consulting/ER positions.

I don't mind whichever a place is—HF/AM/BB/EB/boutique—as long as I can research and analyze data, but I have no idea how the job market is going these days (except that it has become again unfavorable to international students without greencard).

Any advice would be deeply appreciated.

May you have a great day.

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