Obeying conventional wisdom (and getting away)

If you are an (Asian) Indian studying in a U.S graduate business school, then here's a sample of conventional wisdom ingrained in you by your fellow (Asian) Indian MBA students:

• Best career paths: Finance or Management Consulting
• Cream job in Finance career path: Investment Banking (e.g. Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan)
• Cream job in Consulting career path: Strategy Consulting (e.g. McKinsey, BCG, Bain)

Indians share the above conventional wisdom with their American classmates. Toss in the fact that the above career paths have a lot of internationals (so H1Bs and Green cards are common place), provide the best compensation packages (as compared to other career paths such as Marketing, Operations, Non-Profit), and manage to attract the most brilliant students in the class, irrespective of nationality and background.

The following video is about an (Asian) Indian guy who chose to work in what is now Deloitte Consulting, based on the above conventional wisdom. He went on to be a top-level manager in the company. Examples like this might abound, and I just happen to be capturing one person's story.

My notes to self:
1) When you don't know what you don't know, just plain follow conventional wisdom. When you realize you have been naive, there is no harm (arguable) in being honest and admitting the same.
2) When you are subjected to prolonged stress, long work hours, sleep deprivation, frequent business travel etc. that often come with a consulting career, you just get comfortable with that over time.
3) Pick something in your career that you will thoroughly enjoy, and you'll first, enjoy it, second, survive the job, and third, likely thrive in the job.

Source of video:
http://www.informationtechnologyleaders.com/renvid.html