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My wife started as an M at Accenture earlier this year coming from industry. I’ve never worked at Accenture or any b4, but I had to explain to her how up or out works. She also didn’t know that she came in with 24 months at level and what that meant. Really surprised none of this was communicated during hiring or by her manager.
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Consulting as a career is pretty binary: you either THRIVE on the pressure or it’s not for you. If it’s not a “hell yeah” it’s a hell no.
Chief
You have to adjust your lifestyle and enjoy the work you are doing. There is no other way around it, you have to put hours in it , day in and day out. At partnership levels, you have higher level of flexibility but you still have a target on your back and you should be hungry enough to motivate yourself to put in hours.
If you don’t enjoy the work and find it grinding, then it may not be for you. If you enjoy the work, but are burnt out, use your vacation…all of it, every year. Take on work that you may like and directly contributes to your promotion
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SM told our team they don’t enjoy their work.
No wonder people don’t like working for them.
Stop destroying other people’s morale. Find something you enjoy or at least don’t hate.
Chief
You’ll burn out eventually, at least once.
Me rn.
Make really good PPTs and strategies that end up as shelf ware 😁
Well, come with a book of sales network worth of $10million annually… then yes. You make the rules even the stupid ones.
Get people to like you
I’ve seen some really shit senior people in my time who didn’t know a lot but they were very well liked. Seen some insanely knowledgeable people who don’t go far because people haven’t like them
Read "the power of habit". Build your habits around the lifestyle and you'll be fine
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