Consulting really is where great talent goes to die all for 15 seconds of fame to say “I got an offer from xyz” as you graduate from college… Some light should be shed on the stigma of this industry being glorified to college students

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Every major industry is like this. Consulting is among the least bad. Try audit, back office F500 programs, engineering at big firms, i banking is not super stimulating albeit pays well, big law, even medicine is hell unless you love it etc.

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This is probably true of all industries.

You spent most of your life to this point climbing to the top of the academic ladder to graduate college. Your reward is a job near the bottom of the corporate ladder where you spend most of your life climbing again.

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It’s really not great

Money talks

Lolz

What stigma?

I really doubt most people working for Big 4 firms were spending years striving to achieve employment in consulting. Most people just end up in this career haphazardly and because your salary in your mid 20s is greater than the median family of four.

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