B4 consultants who successfully exited to tech sales or a fund: how did you do it?

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I feel so incredibly worthless doing work that I absolutely despise. I have the broad qualifications to land a role in either direction, however I cannot compete with the new flow of talent from covid layoffs. Has anyone been able to make a move into one of these areas during the current environment?

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What's your background, service line, YOE, etc?

I'm a sales eng for analytics, and I think the biggest thing that helped me in the process was project alignment.

@SA1 sure!
@OP, makes sense, not my area of expertise but good luck with the search!

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