In college, I had a pretty based statistics professor who said: "a skilled statistician can make the data tell whatever story his employers want". I chose not to pursue statistics as a career after that.
On the whole, why we start and stop things is complicated. I chose not to pursue engineer status, after the computer science ethics class discuss the risk side of getting it wrong (therac case, the freeman-fox computation disaster which led to two box-girder bridge collapses, Mismanaged expert systems REI-ifying racial and sexist admissions policy to medical degrees) -But in truth, I was probably unsuited. Its easier to say this was my watershed moment, but there were many reasons including lazyness.
Maybe you were better suited to a life in statistics than you thought?