Question from a new consultant: how do you manage your frustrations when your manager completely changes their mind about a deliverable, after you put in all the work and finish what they originally asked for on time? Is this normal in consulting?

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This is normal and it never gets less annoying

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More common than it should be

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Normal, move on.

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Way more common than it should be. My favorite was when I completed a complex projection and the manager was too overwhelmed to check it and it was just wasted effort and got too stale 🙃

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