I don’t know why but I have a fear of getting fired from the job always at the back of my mind. Work in solution selling n biz dev for a practice, not billable/ delivery job at a single customer.

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I feel the same way. For me, it's because I graduated during the great recession and grew up in the rust belt. It was hard to get my first job outta college and had a lot of friends laid off. I also have a lot of family growing up that lost everything because of downsizing.

I've worked really hard to change my mindset. It's not conducive to this career to have a mindset of paranoia and desperation. I can't really give you advice except to look around you and realize things aren't like that here. It's not happening to others and won't happen to you.

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Imposter syndrome. OP- this is normal. Head up

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Pwc1-can you expand on that? I'm at Cap, but would like the outsider's perspective.

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From an outsiders perspective (so take it with a grain of salt), Cap has turned into an Indian Pure Play type brand with a lot of ok technologists, but no real business value to clients. Customers are choosing Cap when price is the key decision point, which puts you in competition with the Tech Mahindras of the world instead of the -Accentures, Deloittes or PwCs.
Your view may be different than mine, but that’s what I’m hearing.

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Thanks KPMG 1.. guess my circumstances are similar.

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I would think that fear is exacerbated given the current climate at Cap. You may want to consider keeping options open.

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Same - would like to hear the outside perspective on this - also have same mindset,op and similar background to kpmg

Is it because of people being put in the global pool?

PwC2...?

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