For those miserable in consulting 1. What’s no 1 thing driving the misery? (WLB, don’t enjoy the work, other?) 2. What’s holding you back from making a change?

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I’m not miserable, it’s the meanness that makes things miserable. I absolutely love consulting. So it’s the fact that I love consulting so much, that is keeping me in it.

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M3 - I love consulting and am looking for that. Can you share info on you firm?

1) Politics and 2) flexibility and variety

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1. Projects staffing, as people are assigned to projects without really matching their skills, so you might end up to do something outside your expertise. Another thing that I don’t like it’s that it doesn’t matter how expert or how good you are delivering, what matters to the company is only utilization and selling new projects. Sometimes I feel more a sales person than a technical professional.
2. I need stability at the moment, but I’ll make the move as soon as I can.

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I’m not miserable but I am painfully aware that I am just a staff augment on a federal contract with no voice for change nor providing any unique value that a Pathway intern could not also provide.

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I am actively changing fields of career inorder to position myself to have more authority in the contracts I choose. I won't let my work become miserable.

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I hate that pursuits are a team sport I love that pursuits are a team sport!

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For me, time. If I’m not working 60 hour weeks, I’m falling behind and the result is my life gets pushed out. Meanwhile being asked to take on more. No life of my own, so many personal things pile up that all I can do is triage the critical ones and keep from blowing up my personal life.

Seriously, F this. Doing two jobs means I should be comparing half my salary to others, right? That’s a depressing thought.

Holding me up - no time to put a real job search together. And few jobs in my area.

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I am not miserable, though I am sick of being spoken to like an inexperienced idiot by senior managers who have less experience and lower education levels but who are higher on the chain as they’ve been here longer. I’m sick of being bullied by a contractor and the senior manager looking the other way. Nothings holding me from making a change. I’m actively exploring options.

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I absolutely love consulting. What makes it miserable is my work never adjusts to my family needs, it’s always my family that has to adjust to my work life - 12-18 hour work days are normal. The only way I’m able to spend time with them is when I take a vacation, which is not often. Lack of WLB is what makes it miserable.

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Partners/MDs that don't understand (or aren't willing to sell) the kind of work that I and a hand picked team can deliver well.

Too risk averse to do advanced SI projects with knowing the client. Mostly because we can't get away with just delivering a pretty slide deck and need to deliver a functional system.

Oh, and the resistance to anything other than pure play S&G work because we might have to staff people outside of S&G. Can't have that...

Principal, you seem as though you’d be a great mentor.

I love the work and 99% of our colleagues. What absolutely disappoints me are the partners who are the “bad apples” - the known, bad apples who are known to be snakes, operate in a Ponzi scheme-like manner and take advantage of others’ success. They are horrible examples for our junior practitioners. They aren’t being pushed out, asked to leave or moved into non-client facing roles.

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