Realized I do not like the ambiguity that comes with consulting, any suggestions on roles that are more defined and structured?

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It depends on your field, but industry should be more structured. It usually means slower rank acceleration, but that may not be a problem if you enjoy the level you're at now or could achieve with a move.

Vendor/product company gigs would be somewhere in the middle. You would likely still be working with customers but in a more focused capacity.

How do you define “ambiguity”?

Ambiguity in the sense of constantly addressing new issues that don’t have an established methodology, i.e. there really isn’t a precedent for a lot of the work that I’ve been doing to reference or learn from

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