New analyst here. One of the sells of consulting were the great exit opps, but this thread is looking really pessimistic. Are things really that bad?

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Yes. We all fell for the overselling. Time to leave ASAP if you can.

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I think people sometimes have the wrong expectations. It's not a golden ticket to exit into any cool role + jumping a few rings on the ladder.

Your project experience, not the consulting role title itself, is what determines what you can exit to. You need to be on the "interesting" projects to exit to an interesting role.

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This. You have to have more to offer than your job title

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I've had a great time in consulting for the past half decade and the exit opps are looking great. It's what you make of it, like everything else in life 👍

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We’re going to have to ask you to leave. This app is not for optimists

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Great exit opps are not automatic. If someone spent all of 2020-2021 on a call center project, they wouldn't magically have great exit opps simply because they worked for a consulting company.

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It's like being a college football player. The NFL is within reach but there's no guarantee of you getting drafted. Totally possible to end up working at Google or Disney or Coca Cola or the cool new startup, but there's a lot of competition and things you can't control

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