Are there any cool or fun jobs that actually pay well and are attainable for a prior Consultant / someone who worked on mostly finance engagements?

Ex: Not tech, not PE, not IB, not MBB. Other jobs.

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Honestly, no. Without significant depth in a field you are interested in, between wlb, fun, and pays well, you get to pick 2.

Finance exits are mostly going to be month end finance processes like budget, wouldn’t call that fun. If you did want to venture to tech, you could find a sales engineer role supporting a fintech product. I’ve enjoyed roles like that in the past, but career progression was limited.

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Honestly, no. Without significant depth in a field you are interested in, between wlb, fun, and pays well, you get to pick 2.

Finance exits are mostly going to be month end finance processes like budget, wouldn’t call that fun. If you did want to venture to tech, you could find a sales engineer role supporting a fintech product. I’ve enjoyed roles like that in the past, but career progression was limited.

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To expand on this, there are three ways to make a lot of money at a company.

1. Have specialized knowledge a company will pay you a lot for

2. Provide an insane amount of working hours to a company

3. Be a revenue generator for the company and generate tons of revenue (sales)

As a generalist consultant that wants good wlb that really only leaves you option 3

Do you mean you’ve mostly done finance work? Or you’ve mostly done work for clients in the finance industry? If the former, yes. If the latter, meh

Both, but I generally agree with your take…

This is kind of along the lines of PE, but I’ve always thought it would be incredibly fun and cool to go in with a search fund. You’re basically a CEO for hire and turnaround small - mid sized companies.

That is a good spin. Agreed.

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