I’ve been with my client on a fucked up project for a year and 4 months. The client likes me but I’m miserable. I’ve been requesting a project transition plan since December. It’s now May and I have no roll off date in sight. I am interested to know what others have done to transition off of long term projects. I don’t want to leave my firm but I don’t know what options I have at this point. Your advise is appreciated.

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The advise you’ll get is to suck it up this environment. Tbh I would also say the same. Ask yourself why are you miserable? Is it because the work doesn’t interest you? Are you overworked? Is your team or manager bad? In 3 years time it won’t matter that you were on a sucky project for 1 year and 4 months or 1 year and 10 months.

The project team is exclusively of consultants and analysts we do not have leadership at the client or present on the project to support us when issues bubble up. Many senior managers have been rolled from the project due to various reasons of being blamed by the client. 3 people have left the company while on this project. Overall the client has a toxic culture. While the client lead “likes” me I feel a lack of autonomy. I’m often blamed and my integrity is questioned when issues pop up. This project has caused unnecessary stress and does not align to my firms values. To top this off I am hitting a plateau in my career growth. While I’ve been promoted during this project I’m afraid I am not growing my skill set or truly being a consultant to this client.

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