As a champion procrastinator, I’m starting to regret joining consulting. I can’t procrastinate with all these status update calls.

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They always want to know what the status is. The status is “I haven’t really started on this yet but I’ll most likely get it done before the deadline.” I don’t want to do any work otherwise.

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Consulting not for average folk

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The struggle is real

The daily stand ups and back to back meetings. It’s tooooo much!! Sometimes I think I’m not adult enough to be a consultant.

Then you're not a champion after all

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