Am I making a mistake? I'm transitioning from a Tier 2 management consulting firm to P&G as finance manager. My problem was primarily one of work-life balance. I was working from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. and couldn't find any time to relax my mind. Wake up, work, eat, work, eat, and sleep. Every day is the same. Salary is slightly lower than Tier-2, but not significantly so. Do I like finance? Not much. Was I fond of consulting? Yes, please. However, not during these working hours..

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Sounds like you took the first thing you could to get better wlb. That's generally a mistake. It would have been better to switch projects, switch firms, or find an exit you actually like.

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You probably won't find a true consulting job with 40-45 hrs, but could find a strategy or Corp dev role in industry that would entail similar work for less pay. Either industry finance or strategy/dev, you're likely taking a pay cut from a t2 firm. Same thing happens with banking

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Give it a shot and see how you like it. You can always switch later. Trial and error is the only way to figure out what you want a lot of the time. P&G is a good brand name too -- probably as good as a t2

I would recommend federal government contracting. You can't bill a single agency for more than 40 hours. But you can, of course support more than one agency.

Our Enterprise Strategy practice has pretty great WLB and has a ton of happy people that have defected from other, more prestigious shops.

People will dump on you here, but ~prestige~ doesn't pay the bills, and ES certainly pays more than internal strategy at all but big tech (which isn't doing so hot right now).

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