Explaining what I do for work as a Strategy Consultsnt at family functions is often difficult. Some people get it and some people are so confused what I actually do. How do you explain it to people?

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Sometimes I just say something simple, but not totally correct and just move on. One of my uncles, who is a farmer, kept grilling me this weekend on what I actually consult on. I think he thought the whole industry is a bunch of bs 😆

lol this is the question I feel like I get the MOST....it's so hard to explain other than "solve businesses complex problems" and who knows what that means lololol

Exactly! And usually after a 5-10 minute conversation it’s not any clearer to that person what we actually do…

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