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I have a feeeling your opinion will change as you get into different areas of consulting, gain more diversity of experience, and earn your lenses to look at things from various aspects.
Yes, it can be due to poor planning, but to say it is always due to poor planning is pure ignorance.
I will leave you with just one semi-hypothetical example - some client, in US, is trying to sell off a technology asset to a prospective buyer from Japan. The Japanese company reps will be visiting in 2 weeks; they are visiting to conclude another deal and will make a detour on their way back to talk to your client company. You and your team have 2 weeks to prepare the due diligence report on operational costs, identify potential entanglements and complexities in separating the asset, determine the separation cost, and develop a pricing model for the asset in collaboration with investment bankers. How many hours will you invest per week to achieve your goals and win over the client's respect in being their greatest ally at the time of need?
A2 - from that response, you are not old enough to be a parent yet :) You will learn a thing or two about work-life-balance when you become one.
Just kidding...you made me laugh for sure
Depends on firm and quality of work too. Consulting is a big industry. Also as an aside - broad sweeping generalizations rooted in anecdotal experience in such a differentiated space
YES
How can you refuse to travel if you’re a lower level staff, when there are plenty of others just waiting to say yes and jump on any opportunity? Saying no and pushing back when you are a junior level makes you seem uncooperative.
Over my 30+ years of consulting, I have learned that 50+ hour weeks are the exception rather than the norm. If they become the norm, it’s usually because of poor planning on behalf of management or poor execution on behalf of employees. Productivity tends to dip after 50 hours, so you are not really getting equivalent effort and production when someone works beyond that
😂 you need more intense projects mate
Glad I’m not the only one. I’m at Huron, but have never worked over 60 (crunch weeks, go live, etc) which really is a lot anyways. Anybody doing more than that deserves whatever they get. Lol
I think some folks would strongly disagree with the “deserved whatever they get” comment. Depending on the project but long hours sometimes are out of your control at a junior level.
I think this may also inform a lot of the responses here
Well fuck, I’m in the wrong Accenture Strategy practice then. 68 on avg, but doing cool shit so it’s not that much of a buzzkill
In the deals group I work in you will be shunned if you don’t work by the Company’s schedule. There will be work. They will ask you to do it at odd times. I’m sure you can push back, but you probably don’t want to be the one guy that pushed back when performance reviews come around