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Dirty secret of consulting is if you find a good niche you basically never have to “work” north of 40 hours a week, however you do need to be a master at delegating.
Crowe1 - It was a joke, like this post!
Hmm 2 hours Sound like there are some issues. Are the tasks boring ? Do you feel empowered enough ? Do you need help to focus on the right staff ? Do you need someone to help you with a clear instructions what to do ?
12 hours of productive work is I think a good and reachable goal. Sometimes it’s 11 some days it’s 16-18, but of course you can’t sustain 18 over longer time.
ROFL mck 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Truly productive work? 2-3 hours a day, max. I do occasionally have days that are 8 hours of productive work every couple weeks
EY1 what kind of automation do you incorporate? Would love to get some inspiration on how to put my underutilized computer science degree to work 😂
Wow what firm? Me probably 10hours of intense work a day
LMAO @ “even T2”
Rising Star
Define productive.
I'm all for working 8-9 hours a day and feeling accomplished when I leave for the day. But waiting for stuff, sitting on useless calls, having small useless gaps between meetings so you can't start another task, etc seem like an inevitable evil. I don't want to spend 12 hours at the office just to have 8 productive hours. I'll work 8 hours, company culture needs to update internal processes to make all of our time productive.
Pro
Same tbh. Everyone here talks about being burnt out and working weekends. you GPS?
Pro
Industry you mostly work 8-9 hrs / day. You’ll be fine
Average about 10 -12 hrs of productive work a day, anything past 12 and my quality suffers
Have fun with that
Big4/Boutique?
I'm in a technical role, so that might have something to do with it.
Chief
I have 12 productive hour of work to do every day, and somehow I manage to fit it into 9 hours of actual time 🤷♂️
OP I think this is more common than people are willing to admit. Definitely changes from project to project. But the people enjoying this path get drowned out on fb by those who seem to get off on how hard or long they work... we all get paid the same though, so enjoy it while it lasts!
I would be happy with zero hours of real work per day
24 hours/day if you are in consulting
I feel exactly the same OP
GPS, S&A CCG. I’m a bit newer to the firms than you but I have done a technical role which was mostly training and waiting for onboarding and now I’m currently doing a less technical role which still mostly involves waiting for people to get around to delegating things to me
This sounds fine. You really think working nonstop is going to benefit you? If you want fulfillment, go public sector.
Always boggles my mind how consultants feel it’s competition to work as much as they can (not directed at you).
I think your only measure of productivity is if you’re learning anything useful. If not, spend more hours trying to learn at least one useful / marketable skill from a project
What counts as productive? I find some if my most productive thinking occurs when I am not particularly busy with mundane tasks. If your outcomes leapfrog expectations, then every minute you spend 'at work' is productive.
I've had projects where I'm consistently doing less than 4 hrs/d productive work because for more the work was very easy. It's balanced out with other projects working upwards of 13 hr/d.
I'm in TC.
T2 strategy. Work 13 hours on avg. 10 productive hrs. 1.5 hrs lunch+dinner. 1.5 hrs staring @ the ground, working out, messaging ppl, etc.
This is exactly how my first consulting analyst role was. Just made the jump to D. So interested to see how it increases.
Def very project dependent, good luck!
At TCS, a minority of my day is spent on value-add work. The rest of my time is spent sitting on useless Teams calls that are meant to help people inflate the hours they spend at work because we’re actually evaluated on how much time we spend outside of working hours, and that’s given equal weight to the quality of our actual work.
Work 8h/day on average. Usually I’ll get 4 to 6 productive hours and the rest just stuck in pointless meetings. Also I noticed that some days I cannot be productive more than 4h without impacting the quality of my work.