Does anyone successfully make a career of “being on the bench” ? I’m starting to realize that this might be my niche within consulting

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Gotta know how to play politics 😉 I was able to get a double promo with a 40% utilization

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Yes please share

Till now everything happened to me while on "Bench"..1st switch while on bench..1st onsite while on Bench..

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Ask to look for opportunities across groups. TC or BC? We have been desperate for people in my grits in TC bc we have no bench.

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Honestly I rode that wave for a bit.

Growing firm. Some people parlayed that into ops/internal facing roles at the firm.

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Fish,

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