Academia for now.
But, of course, it's all about me, isn't it?
'Course, it really doesn't matter. You call it the Laffer Curve and spend weeks and weeks trying to understand it. I call it a quadratic equation and yawn.
You seem bright, even accounting for your willingness to say so yourself. Being as bright as you are, you might try building a business. Why settle for a professor's retirement after all?
I'm guessing you're way ahead of me in thinking along those lines, yes?