Hi. I'm currently a Ph.D. student studying computational science (not computer science) at a large research university in an urban area of the midwestern United States. I'm currently all but dissertation, and hopefully just a little over a year from finishing. Unfortunately, I have absolutely no desire to continue my current line of research.
I applied to my current university (which will remain nameless) hoping to work in computational fluid dynamics or some area of computational geology such as groundwater flow. Sadly, I wasn't offered any funding to work in those fields, but I was offered funding to work in biophysical modeling, and so I decided to take the biophysical modeling funding and work on a project in that area because I had no other options.
So here is what I'd like to know. I'd like to know whether anyone here has been in the same situation and has found a satisfying job unrelated to their Ph.D. research quickly after graduation. Additionally, I'm interested in some of your advice. However, before you hastily give advice, please consider that I'm married and unwilling to relocate for the next five years or so, and that I'm unwilling to do a postdoc. Also, it may be helpful to know that I have master's degree in mathematics (my area of emphasis was numerical analysis) and have been programming in C++ for over 10 years. Thanks.