Anyone else feel somewhat lost on what interests them long term in their career or if you’re even in the right realm of consulting? Any advice on how I can reflect and figure this out? Context - I applied for any open business analyst position in my city after graduating and ended up in healthcare consulting. I don’t love or hate it. I get the work done and I learn a lot about the healthcare industry but I’m not the most passionate about the work/industry either.

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Preach

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Same!

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Healthcare is just too frothy of an industry for consulting firms to pass up, and for the exact reasons you mentioned they have trouble recruiting and retaining young talent. Same boat as you tbh, just took me a while to see behind the curtain

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^the healthcare companies struggle to retain talent, consulting firms disassociate their brand and strobe consultants ego’s enough for us to put up with doing beat work

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Same here. Been struggling to find that long term vision. Any advice would be appreciated.

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same way I ended up at cyber consulting. but I just told myself if I’m not enjoying this enough I should move and decided to switch companies for one with wider range of projects

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