Is public sector/government consulting (Booz allen, Lockheed, AFS) generally considered significantly less stressful than private sector consulting? I know it depends on the team/role/level and project ofc, but I'm asking just generally? And I mean in terms of day to day work/pressure (not stress from current political climate)...l guess I'm just looking for some reassurance, bc I'm coming off a very stressful intense consulting gig that I hated-it wasn't in the public sector....

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Historically, yes, but not right now

Quite the opposite

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AFS eliminated their bench, and looks like Deloitte GPS are doing larger layoffs as of today as well. Fed consulting is not in a good state now.

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Dang, that’s tough

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Definitely depends on the role and contracting office. I have had friends who did ~10 hours of real work spread across 40 hours, friends who did a standard 40 hours of moderate exertion work, and have worked with offices that had their consultants doing a ton of heavy lifting on short timelines

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Ive done both and generally yes, as a rule of thumb. There are a ton of variables. I’ve been crushed on both sides of the fence.

The biggest difference is pacing - new projects and onboarding are incredibly fast in comparison. Project duration is also a pretty big difference as federal will be far longer.

There are also times where federal projects will have massive, insurmountable, deadlines and expectations that are unable to be met by failures across other parts of the organization, or in the past. Can cause a lot of pain.

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