Met up with a friend last weekend. We both started in consulting years ago and weren't able to meet ever since.
He brought his work laptop containing a presentation about his life and pitched to me.

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A colleague of mine did a 50 slide deck on "How to get a wife" describing the whole process from meeting for the first time up to proposing...He had a list of KPIs after each stage and so on...He asked for feedback from married ladies in the office and they said was actually very good🤣

And nope - he didn't get a wife yet :(

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I guess I’m not surprised

This is one of the most precise descriptions of consultant lifestyle I've encountered so far. Do you have similar stories?

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Nothing nearly as sad as your story

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I schedule phone calls in the diary with my wife when I’m working away so we know when is a good time to talk. I knew I’d been in this game too long when I titled the last one “X/Y Catch Up”.....

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Thats incredibly socially awkward to do with a friend. Very odd. Is he trying to sell his friendship? Confused here

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Never happened

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Guys I think he did it as a joke — I did this with friends at university every year when we got back from summer holiday. It would be a bunch of legit/ugly pictures of ourselves from our summer shenanigans.

Worked with a guy who had a scrum board for his family at home. Actually not a bad idea

No I think people that go this far in their personal lives will find themselves 10 years down the road trying to figure out why they haven’t advanced and it’s because they have no social skills. I would suggest to him to smoke a joint and relax ppt is a basic skill and is not valued by people who make decisions

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