How do I know if consulting is not for me? I have no clue what I’d want to exit to or if I’d be happy. I don’t want to make a rash decision and leave only to realize I liked consulting more than whatever I end up in. Am I just unmotivated to work in general?

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Personally, I loved it when working with the right people and absolutely hated it with the wrong ones. l enjoyed working at the smaller boutique shop, more personable.

Consulting teaches you to think/adapt quickly and strategically which will put you ahead of ppl who only worked industry. I can’t remember but I think it’s like for every 1yr in Consulting, it’s 2-3yrs from industry in acceleration of growth/stress-this stat isn’t mine.

Empower you to learn what you don’t like from the role, so it can better guide you to your next one. Best of luck!

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Everyone has their reasons and in all honesty I think fishbowl puts a lot of unnecessary pressure to find an exit from consulting. Prior to leaving I actually enjoyed it, the change of projects, the comp, new teams and new clients kept things fun.

I’d say spend some time doing some serious exploration about things you’d want to explore. Pretty much every subject area (cars, tech, fashion etc) has an applicable job whether it’s HR, management, sales etc.

It’s also worth mentioning that a lot of firms have professional services arms, so if you do like consulting but want to pump the brakes a little you can explore that route. Our proserv org in cloud is basically strategy and implement consulting.

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No problem to explore and boomerang back if you want

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Informational interviews.

Message 10 ppl a day on LI and schedule 2/3 info interviews per week for 4 weeks. They can be in a sector of your interest or multiple sectors to explore. Be transparent about what you are trying to get out of it. Go in with good questions (google can help) and don’t waste anyone’s time, but otherwise people will be happy to talk to you about what they do and share their experience to give you more datapoints to make the right decision.

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