Do you actually find your work meaningful? I've been enlarging boxes and aligning shapes for 6 months. When I exit to industry I will never hire a consultant.

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I don’t. But there is value in consultants. I just don’t want to be one.

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I don’t find it meaningful.

That being said, there’s definitely value to consultants. You’ll find out once you are more client facing. Majority of the time, they’re idiots and don’t know how to do anything and need to be guided.

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^ those are 2 different things. I agree that getting results more quickly is definitely one reason consultants are hired (your reason #2)

Will your contributions be that much more meaningful when you’re enlarging boxes and aligning shapes or something similar as a direct employee?

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You’re adorable

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You too

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You need to plug yourself next to people who value you and are willing to nurture you, then you can go from enlarging boxes to determine the flow of the deck, and then learning about the actual content

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Director 1 was so funny?

If you're not using your brain and thinking through the problem while you're enlarging boxes and aligning shapes...

How long have you been at it for? Starting out being stuck in the grunt work it’s easy to get tunnel vision, but there’s a point in which you’re sitting in meetings with execs while they have an open dialogue and you see what they’re thinking and the why behind it all.

Some projects are meh, but some do serve a bigger purpose. Your experience will vary, but a decent amount of industry jobs involve menial and inefficient work as well.

The why? You couldn't say the reason?

Switch to technology implementations. I'm bad at slides but get to watch my projects go live in the real world

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