Thinking about leaving consulting to join the military. Anyone done this, or come from the military into consulting? Would love some advice

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Same. I need trump to be booted out before joining though. I wouldn’t want to go to battlefield because the person in charge was on a Twitter rage, used war to overshadow his personal public failures, went on an attack to serve his power hungry ego.

Yes I understand congress declares war.

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I didn’t like the President who signed my commissioning papers either, but I knew that he cared about the country, and took seriously his oath of office and duty to represent more than his own interests, as just about every president has. I would not rejoin while Trump controls “[his] military,” which he treats as a political prop, ever at his disposal, without regard for the best interests of either the nation or its servicemembers.

Check your veterans network at D. They can tell you what both sides are like.

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I thought D got rid of D&I networks? Genuinely curious how it’s set up now

My son was a HS Social Studies teacher for 3 years at highly at risk schools. He went went through OCS in the Army and is now a Captain. His oldest child is 4 and has lived in 3 different states already. The pay is better than teaching but I am guessing much lower than consulting. He actually starts a Training Within Industry 1 year program with Navigant Consulting in September. So I can share more later. It will defer another deployment for 4 years. He was deployed to Europe last year for 9 months. Leaving a 3 year old, a 1 year old, and a pregnant wife behind. He was able to come home for the baby, but he was 12 hours too late for the birth, he did see on Facebook. It’s a hard life. If you do join, best of luck to you. And thank you for serving your country in this way. Hmm - teaching or Army - both are very scary professions these days!

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Vet here, now doing consulting.

Any in specific you want to hear about?

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Thank you for your service A3!

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You might also look at aerospace and defense investment banking

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Consulting feels like the military of the business world at times

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Mercenary life.

I just got out of the reserves. So I was in the reserves before consulting

Which branch

Navy

You M or F?

I was in the military before B-school and consulting. I think the key question is why do you want to join the military? And what do you like and not like about consulting? The military life is much less cushy than consulting life, especially as an enlisted person or junior officer. And you will have to put up with a lot more stupid and frustrating things than you do now. Of course in the military you’re arguably doing something more meaningful and you do get some cool experiences but there’s also a lot of crap. I think it also depends on what service and specialty you go into. What are you thinking of for that and we may be able to give you more specifics? Navy supply is very different than say Navy EOD...

Military TO consulting. You’re going to find out quickly that the commercial world doesn’t respect the military enough, so the faster you can ditch that label the better for you. It’s not right but 🤷🏻‍♂️

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