Fellow fish, how did you decide which direction to take your career and how to best narrow down your exit opps? I feel like I didn’t learn any hard skills in consulting and don’t want to return to my pre-McKinsey industry. Any advice is appreciated

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Be a strategy consultant and build a framework.

What do you want? What do you not want? What are you indifferent about? You say you don’t want to go back to your pre-consulting industry. Why not? Do you feel that way about other industries?

Etc

Do some reflection before you do anything else, otherwise you’ll just be chasing the moving target.

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Yes this 👆🏻

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You’ll never have everything figured out completely. Start asking yourself what you like and dislike about your current and past jobs in terms of tasks, work styles, industry exposure etc and just find a way to do more of the stuff you like and less of the stuff you don’t like.

Reid Hoffmanns book “the startup of you” is also very good.

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