[jlousa]

Get into property management with a respectable firm, and then you can always transfer internally to property development a couple of years later if you still desire.
Remember listening to a Michael Gellar lecture years ago and he told a story about wanting to be a architect, then he quickly learned architects don't design buildings, developers do. Well same can be said about planning, at the end of the day the developer decides what gets built not the planner so might as well work for them.