I hate the consulting tasks and my colleagues. I recently am spending 75% of my time on “org initiatives” (which I love) and 25% on typical consulting projects. But that 25% is still incredibly draining. Should I leave? Unlikely I can only do initiatives.

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So let me get this straight. McK is paying you a strategy salary with only a 25% utilization target? What is an org initiative? Are you sure you’re reading the room correctly?

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If you enjoy the internal initiatives, there may be an opportunity to transition to a role in an internal function. Those roles tend not to have as much prestige or as rapid a career trajectory as consulting roles (and depending on the role, you might have to take a pay cut), but it sounds like they are more aligned to your interests.

From what I understand, MBB don’t view utilization as an individual performance metric the way the Big 4 do, but 25% utilization is still not sustainable over any kind of long term horizon in consulting.

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I, too, prefer “work” over Work.

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Oooh, idk about that. Keeping one foot in the door of client facing projects is essential, imo.

Somebody doing only internal ops/admin at McKinsey doesn't have nearly the same sway as the actual client work

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Seems this decision will be made for you in the next performance cycle if not sooner.

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Org initiatives = Capacity reduction = RIFs ?

Sounds like practice building and internal initiatives in this case

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You need to look at the writing on the wall. You like business/process improvement + operations. Take an external offer doing strategy and ops at a tech company or start up and align yourself with a specific vertical once you feel comfortable. You’ll be a lot more happy and be able to have two feet on one side of the fence. People pick up on you being distracted at some point.

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