Folks who moved from Consulting to Industry: how was the transition? Did you struggle initially and has the struggle continued over time?

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Have had to pick up hobbies to constructively use the time that was earlier spent in slides iteration. Oh yes, and still sometimes get nightmares that I am getting on a 4AM Monday flight to run a workshop I knew hardly anything about.

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Playing Warzone, counting how many slides I didn’t have to make, napping, Legos, not worrying about ‘internal work’ and the absurdity of the promotion process. I squeeze most of this in after wrapping up my 90mins of work.

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I realised how much generic BS we sold to clients and how complex it is to implement decent scale transformation in practice

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I struggled for about 3 months and I’m only 4 months in. I felt like for the most part I was behind in relation to my industry peers since I felt I didn’t learn a whole lot in consulting. I event went on anti anxiety meds (whole different story lol) due to the imposter syndrome. But now I’m feeling loads better. It helps that everyone is so supportive and wants me to learn. I sometimes feel personally invested in the company which I never felt in any past jobs. All that to say it does usually get easier if you struggle initially.

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