What should I do with this aimless life?

Well, I'm 22, about to graduate from university after 5 years of study...which is all fine and dandy except over the past 8 months, I've grown to hate my field. I can't stand the thought of getting a job in this industry. It's so boring, vapid, useless...

Some background: I'll be graduating with a Bachelor in Math and another Bachelor in Business Administration, majored in statistics and finance. My whole university career, I've wanted to do finance. Practically every course I took had to do with investments, trading, mathematical modeling etc, and every internship I did was at a trading firm. Everything was perfect, everything was supposed to culminate to the perfect finance job after graduation!

And then...I got an internship at an investment banking firm and did banking for a while...oh my god, it was the worst year of my life! Everyday, 15 hours of work, no weekends, people on my back all the time, my coworkers talking shit about me...After that disgusting experience, I've been turned off finance completely. When I look at stock prices now, all I can think about is the idiots in my office arguing about book value...*shudder*....I can't stand it now. I can't stand following stocks any more. I used to love studying derivatives, and now I can't bear to crack open the new textbooks I had bought. It feels like I've become a new person and I don't know who I am. Short of banking being a stupid practice, it's over now anyway. There's practically no jobs in finance. The new grad interview cycles are over, I didn't apply to grad school because I don't want to stay in school another 2 years. SIGH

But now what am I supposed to do? I don't want to work in an office job, staying inside the office all freaking day looking at a computer, wasting my life away plugging numbers for someone else. But what else can I do with my degrees. Math + BBA = Finance

URG. I looked up what it takes to be a doctor, but it turns out because of all those finance courses, I don't have the prerequisites....

God my life is lame. What should I do with my lame lame life that is non-finance related...

Public Comments

1. What about your own business, or move to another part of the world, and do it over there? I don't know, do you like to teach it, you could teach it on a university level?

2. First of all, it won't help you in getting anywhere if you keep this attitude up. If you believe your life is lame or is aimless then that is what it will be. You need to change your mindset about things. Otherwise you will slump into depression and you will lose time that you could be bettering your life. Secondly, just because your past jobs have not worked out doesn't mean your life is over. You are 22, you are young. You have plenty of time to make the best of what you have been given. As it relates to you hating your field, you only had one internship. Also I think you are jumping the gun here. You are basing your experience off of one internship. You have a choice, you can either try to find a job that suits your field, or find something else you want to do. I wouldn't be so quick to give up. That would mean you spent 5 years and all of that money wasting your time. At least try again. Don't quit.

3. Jenovany - Hello so the "real world" is not what you want to do? Friends have burned out looking for suitable work. Your first experiences at the bottom of the ladder caused my own math major work to end.