Left consulting two months ago after 5 years at Big4/ACN. Life could not be better. There ARE better ways to live!

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K1 - I am basically functioning as an internal consultant. Amazing opp for seeing the company to the next round of funding and reporting directly to CEO who is ex-McKinsey and Harvard

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What are you up to?

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A1- at an early stage fintech startup in SF. LOVE IT! Learned more in 7 weeks than I did on my last consulting project which lasted 6 months.

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Sounds like you're one of the few who made it out :) congrats on the awesome role!!

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One year later. Life is still better out of consulting

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check back with a status in a year from now. hopefully you will still feel the same way.

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What do you do? Senior project manager sure as hell ain't coding!

Cool! Glad you're happy :)

What was your level before you left? Sounds like an awesome switch!

Absolutely!

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