Looking to move to San Diego. Would love some advice on how to navigate out of my consulting job into a hopefully higher paying job. Have 7 yoe, $125k base, not super technical but can hang. Any companies I should target or certs I should get to help my chances?

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Intuit and Qualcomm are prob among the better big employers there

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What industry do you consult in? Large biotech space in sd that pays very well.

Also slalom, deloitte, bcg have offices in sd

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If you /want/ to stay in federal consulting, deloitte has a growing federal practice in san diego specifically with a healthy amount of strategy and analytics projects :)

Also military and/or contractors (e.g. dod, lockheed, northrop)

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