Loving the consultant life but tempted to throw in the towel. I want to be placed on an actual project with a project team, but haven't hit my one year yet. Thoughts on what (if any) options I have?

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Quality consulting. The seniors direct the project, we enforce the assessment process with no input. Account is new so every little thing gets scrutinized, and our work has added a significant chunk of business, of which we are responsible for more work, same pay and no additional compensation.

Compensation isn't what's annoying though. It's not being able to solve the problems at hand or provide input or contribute in a real way.

What's your skill set and what do you wanna do?

I think very few projects can give you that.

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