My wife is a Physician* Assistant also. For the sake of your marriage definitely take the “s” off that title lol.
This is the way. Management consulting is like the new “advanced degree”. You do this for a few years to get generalized experience and exposure to multiple industries. You find the one you like and then you are fast tracked to a role “in industry” as they say.
I did it the slow way. Went right into sales in a specific industry with an engineering undergrad degree. A lot more sales later and multiple roles in sales ops, analytics, presales engineering (midlife crisis), and then finally up the ladder to sales leadership.
I went back to grab my MBA during covid and will be done with that in march (graduate in may). It was to help round out my experience with what I knew from my industry and give me an outside perspective.
The downside of coming up in an industry is you don’t get exposure to how things are done elsewhere.
With all that being said - Become a broker.