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Not leaving sooner… but also the points and miles
As someone who moved from industry at a fortune 100 into consulting I had 0 motivation at the fortune 100. People I worked with were significantly less smart and lacked basic technical skills. It felt like nothing ever got done and no matter how much effort you put in you’re not making any difference. 90% of my job was just repeating the same tasks week after week, almost no variability. Didn’t learn really anything.
I know that consulting isn’t for everyone and there’s some variability between consulting firms but I learned more in a few months of consulting than the average person in industry would learn in 3+ years. You really do get opportunities to make an impact. And sure projects can get repetitive over time but the day-to-day and week-to-week certainly is not with the exception of certain PM related activities. Honestly I think a lot of the clients I’ve consulted for have employees that have worked industry for so long they forget how to think more creatively or problem solve. They were told this is how they do their job and even though it’s not efficient or practical they don’t bother to make it better. They’re human drones.
That being said consulting is 100% a body shop and if your technical expertise is considered not valuable because partners at the firm are struggling to sell work in your area of expertise there’s a high probability they’ll just dispose of you and you’ll be looking for work elsewhere. They’ll get every billable hour out of you that they can until there’s no more client work to be found. That instability is the hardest part of being in consulting imo.
TLDR: Industry is boring, repetitive, most times you don’t learn anywhere near as much as you would in consulting and the likelihood you’re making any noticeable impact for the org is minuscule.
Thanks Bain1. I have an offer as a data scientist at a consulting company (gps) and I wasn’t sure my experience would be technical enough :/
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I have not quit.
1. I would miss my free time. I can go on vacation and work and bill hours without taking official hours off. I can go to a dr appt and just put it on my calendar without having to take time off. I WFH so have the leisure of working when I have to and when I need to for making up hours.
2. I can only bill 40 hours a week and need permission for OT. As an actual worker dividing salary by time worked means a lot less than I make per hour now currently. My clients work a lot of hours everyday.
3. I am not required to put in the 55 like PA requires.
4. I’m networked and have been providing my consulting services to one company for almost 8 years. 1 job is done, my company can network me for other roles and because of my longevity I have proven I can be successful. Note: this is a company where they know pretty much within 90 days if you are not working out on a project so this is important.
The literal only thing I miss is having colleagues know how to do proper slides.
The state of the slides I see now that I'm industry side ...
But nothing else, I don't miss Consulting at all, I now have better salary, better WLB, and actually more interesting projects.
I am leaving after 12 years of consulting. Hoping for better WLB and not worrying about every single thing- from A’s exit to P’s wit to client’s cheat
For all of you who moved to tech from consulting, what kind of roles to move as a M in Tech consulting?
I'm a functional architect ( mostly aligned with SAP Product) with 10+ yoe.
I can tell you it’s worse than consulting and your pay is stagnant. You’re also subject to layoffs and fear of it potentially. I never had that fear in consulting.
I left for amazon and i regret it. There’s so much politics it’s fking ridiculous
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Nothing, I absolutely despised the travel and clients. There was always a 25% chance of my flight getting canceled, sometimes when we were already boarded on the runway.
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I started my career in consulting (12 years), then moved into industry and ultimately back into consulting. I would say the biggest regret is the variety of different challenges you get to solve at different companies. When you work at one place for a while (in industry), you get to know that company very very well, but it does mean you lose the variety of seeing how other companies operate.
Was bored out of my mind. Came back.
My biggest regrets “quitting” consulting is that now all my travels and expenses are from my own pocket… and it changes everything. Oh wait…