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How is the project for 'Tyson' client?
I am going into a new company with a technology stack i am just aware of and which i didnt have hands on for. Will the new company know it when they are doing BGV ? Will the company also enquire on which projwct did we work and which technology did we work.
Please dont say that its bad. I worked in support project before. someday or other we need a change. I felt like I need to take this oppurtunity to do so.
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It was A LOT more fun.
The playing hard got you through the really tough “work hard” times. It also helped form lifelong friendships.
I also liked that there were far fewer “consultants” back then. The title of consultant was respected and you didn’t feel like a cog in a wheel.
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You thinking there are a lot of 60’s and 70’s on this app?
Not a lot but I was hoping there would be atleast a few nostalgic 60 year olds who might post
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I'm not that old... started in the late 90s. We certainly didn't have google (nor did our clients) back then 😁. One phrase I recall was "you only have to know the answer just before your client asks" and made sure to learn what we needed to know the night before. 😂
I have had definitely been in meetings where I've frantically searched something on my phone under the table or strategically timed a bathroom trip to read up content and then baked my newly learned fact seamlessly into my narrative. I would not survive the 90s
by the turn of the century, three things combined to change the profession from my perspective.
First, the laptop, internet, and email became powerful. The conjoint i needed to buy a Sun Microstation to run in the mid 90s i could now do on my flight to NYC on my laptop using Sawtooth. The internet opened up massive amounts of data that folks like Thomson and Bloomberg were digitizing and making nice workflow tools for. Suddenly discovery was easy. And email is just way, way, way more efficient than voicemail - remember hopping off your flight and calling into VM from a payphone?
Secondly, the diaspora of professionals from the 90s and 01 bubble pushed tons of ex-consultants into firms. They learned to use us better, demanded vertical expertise, and compressed the timeline of projects.
Thirdly, I-banks and consulting moved behind tech and PE in recruiting so the quality of our folks declined. Now we have a bunch of 'good enough' and a few stars. That means greater reliance on KM and process.
My thoughts.
Excellent post. As the industry grows, the quality seems to be declining.