Curious to know - what was your undergrad degree in? Did you plan to end up in Consulting?

My undergrad was in Theatre and no I did not plan to end up in Consulting (but I love what I do!)

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Math...wanted to do something meaningful but you know, here I am.

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How has no one noted that theatre is by the far the most relevant degree to our job?

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You have no idea. The VP I interviewed with straight up asked - “How do I know this isn’t all an act right now and you just played us all up to this point?!”

I answered - “The fact that you are asking yourself that and don’t know the answer, means it was money well spent on my end. Think what I could do if you were directing?!”

Clearly we know what the outcome of that interview was.

All jokes aside, I have noticed that it has helped in many ways!

Political science - didn't really have a plan like most ppl w my major lol

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My minor was political science... looking back maybe I wasn’t that sure where I was trying to go either haha

Economics - didn’t plan because I didn’t think I’d make it, but I feel lucky to this day and love it too

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Chemical Engineering and no but it’s also not going to be the last thing I do :) I want to open a business and go back to school

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Another ChemE here too. Not sure what I want to do long term though

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Industrial engineering. Nope, didn't plan for it. I thought I'd work in manufacturing.

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Biotechnology - I wanted to get into forensics. Nowhere close now

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Sociology. I loved my major but the related jobs I’ve had with it are draining

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Civil engineering.... and thank god I don’t work in it lol civil eng truly blows compared to consulting

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Aviation. Consulting never crossed my mind until 10 years later, stumbled into it

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D2: I did similar. Made the poor decision to get an aviation degree when the airlines only require that you have a degree (of any sort). Really limited my options. So off to the military I went for about 9 years before stumbling into the consulting world. On the bright side, I’ve begun flying using the GI Bill

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Had no idea what Consulting was until about a year AFTER I graduated with a BS in Business Management. Currently a Manager in S&O. Was lucky enough to figure it all out somewhere in between. Seems like a pretty fitting degree for a management consultant.

My degree was in Economics (and French). I didn't plan on consulting per se, but I'm doing the work I always wanted to do (health care policy), and federal health consulting turned out to be the best way to do that, for now.

Economics- planned on going into consulting

Finance- not planned

Biology. Most definitely not.

Finance - didn’t plan on it in college after I went to industry for a year I had to get out

CS and Math. Worked in the industry for a few years before b-school, which led me to consulting...so I suppose it was planned?!

Similar to me. CS, working in Network Security before b-school and eventually Accenture

Double in International business management and information systems.

Didn’t know what I wanted to do then, and quite frankly still don’t.

But I like how things are going

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