Sunday thru Friday travel is done after this week! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

Hi Fishes,

My wife is getting transferred to California from India and she is offered 143k.

How much she can get after tax deduction and all? How much she can save after all the expenses?

She is insisting that I travel with her and get the job in the US. I'm a software developer having 4.1 YOE. How much can I get in the US? Is it worth traveling with her?

Any information would be helpful, Thanks in advance...

Experiential Marketing position, remote w/ some travel and 5 years of experience. Any idea of salary range?

We’re planning to be in Kauai for a week in mid-December, but I’m thinking of extending the trip an extra 10 days. Would we have enough to do with a 4yo in tow? Or maybe not worth it to stay that long? Staying at the Grand Hyatt first week, then downgrade to Sheraton Coconut Beach.

Any recommendations on St Regis vs Ritz Carlton Istanbul?

If I book a hotel with points will I get my points back if I cancel the reservation within the permitted cancellation timeframe ?

Long weekend to Nashville. Any tips and must-sees?

Have 3 Bonvoy free night certificates (35k/night), thinking of using them to go somewhere but legit have no idea where to go.

Any recs for decent but “affordable” Bonvoy hotels in cool places ?

Best places to stay in Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia? Who has had a great experience in these places and what made it special? : )

Staying at the Ritz and STR in the Maldives so expecting good service and reading mixed things about tipping. I usually don’t tip much at hotels (never really thought about it) but what do people do? Is there an expectation and would the amount be based on like room rate or just a flat daily per day?

Best Marriott hotel in London? Looking at 5 nights shortly after the New Year, no specific plans.

Out of curiosity, if I had a secret clearance but left my previous firm and my new firm does not do any form of public consulting therefore does not utilize my secret clearance, and I am planning to travel abroad; who do I notify? How do I notify them? Any form of help would be greatly appreciated!

Does KGS provide shuttle services in Bengaluru?

I don’t drive. Does that limit my activities if I am traveling to Hawaii ?

American Airline q - if I have Gold status and an American Airlines credit card - does that mean I get two free checked bags or one

Any 🐠 traveling from PHX to ATL next week ? I have some luggage (one check-in bag) that I want sent if you are kind to help. Any fish willing to help ? Will buy you 🍺 and 🍕 as a thank you

Looking to book two Iberia tickets using avios NYC to MAD business class in March but can't seem to find availability - can anyone help?

Will my lifetime SPG nights and lifetime Marriott nights get combined in the new Marriott program?

Does it matter when you check in online for a hotel in terms of getting an upgrade? I'm a titanium elite Marriott bonvoy member looking for upgrades at Westin and Ritz in a couple of days. Any tips on getting an upgrade?

Anyone know of any on non-travel roles available?

Just saw an old coworker post bragging about how she graduated from the most prestigious University in the world. It was obviously the Harvard Extension School…cringe

how can i get hearts on this

Has anyone moved from HR consulting to Core HR Roles?, I wanted to take some career guidance from him/her

I have 5 years in insurance sales experience, how can I break into tech industry through customer Success?

Hey Fishies
I interviewed at Infosys yesterday and it went well I am expecting positive feedback from HR. Does anybody know how much time they will take in reviewing after my interview i received a message from them that we are reviewing your profile.

How’s your remote onboarding experience? Any tips/suggestions? Appreciate any inputs :)

Anybody know if there is a way to automate a Gantt chart in excel when building out a roadmap? Essentially want to recreate the functionality of ms project because my client does not have project and wants a nice visual for the roadmap

Are you receiving a lot of participation from employees from surveys? Or do you recommend going through a third-party? I want to get as much engagement from employees as much as possible.

What's your target retirement savings? Target age? Combined or single?

Looks like stocks are back on sale

Want to start saving/investing from this year. Got £11K and will have £2K a month to invest - any recommendations? I don’t want to take crazy risks, somewhere where this is steady long term growth. Have already maxed out pension and I assume next step is maxing out ISA? After that, what is best? (From UK)

Fellow IT Consultants. I am a BA on System implementations and would like to learn AWS. Can someone help me get started? How about the certification for administrator ? Cont..

I am leaving US, because of no H1B. Why are you?

Are there any disadvantages of joining a C2H role purely on the basis of high CTC even though it is for a big client of the contractor company?

Hi All,

I have been selected as ACON from bridge program, and the revised package would be 7.5 LPA. Could you please let me know, what will be the variable component in this and how much in hand salary I will get.

What is dry ice in HCL like what kind of project it is is it good

I just stop breathing whenever I get a meeting invite. What is life

What is the tuition reimbursement benefit like at your company? I’m in Accenture Operation and there’s no such benefits. (Only strategy and CDO have it). Is it typical?

Wealth of experience working in the Bay Area with pre ipo clients going through funding/ working on pitch books etc.

My hometown has a growing tech scene but little funding. Was thinking of parlaying these experiences and starting a bit of a consulting operations to connect the two

Anyone with insight on how I might go about doing this? Would love to chat!

Let’s discuss all of the things we would have advised Elon Musk not to do re: Twitter had he hired us as consultants. I’ll start:

So i have been fortunate that i have managed to go through my career without the need for a degree. I was lucky enough to have been hired by one of the worlds top consulting firms, worked with a whole lot of big clients and travelled a lot. It's gotten to the point where I am not even asked about the lack of a degree on my resume. Personally though, it bothers me. I have a whole bunch of certifications in my industry…but just no formal degree. (cont'd)

Folks that used an MBA admissions consultancy (consultants using consultants lol) - could you please share your experience? Was it worth it? I can’t really get a good read on any of them so far. Thanks

What level is about 140 base at your firm? I’m at the in industry and wanting to know what that would be in consulting. Thank you!

Book recommendations on leadership, career development, etc?

What percentage of your monthly salary do you spend for your wants (clothes/hobby/entertainment)? E.g. i spend 20% ($~800) on going out/clothes/etc.. is this too much

Does alixpartners hire PhDs?

Looking for book recommendations; any favorites? Interested in both fiction and educational/self-improvement (for example, investment / finance books, time management, etc). I feel my vocab is...

Entering my 15th week unstaffed for the year. Does Deloitte do layoffs for low utilization? Mine is around 60%

M2 NYC metro area working in healthcare consulting base around $131K low for an M2 in a high COL or market? No MBA, but want to pursue in the next 2 years to pivot to working in health strategy.

Does anyone from EY have insight on layoffs? I'm seeing horror stories from other firms but haven't heard anything about EY layoffs. (Manager, FSO-Advisory-Risk)

HR/human capital/PAS consultant 🐠: If I have a Masters degree in HR and 2 years experience, is it worth it to get the aPHR or SHRM-CP? Or is the Masters degree enough? Should I wait for SPHR/SHRM-SCP

The New York Jets ladies and gentlemen

Does anybody know of Accenture benefits pertaining to jewelry insurance? Not feeling like the $20/mo is worth it for this engagement ring. Should be comparable to my Netflix monthly cost.

Coming up on 1 year of CDD experience at a T2 and thinking about exit ops to early stage VC / start-ups. How valuable is CDD experience in exiting this early?