Thoughts on leaving consulting for F500, then maybe returning as partner?

Curious if anyone has left consulting for a F500 role and later returned as a partner, or at least seriously considered it.

I’m a few years in OW at the early EM level. The internal politics and constant need to pander both internally and to clients is wearing me down.

At the same time, I see clients making $400k+ working 50 hours. What gives?

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Internal politics and pandering to clients will only be more significant at partner level.
I do think leaving for industry and coming back to consukting is going to be a more and more sought after profile from clients. So I think it makes sense.

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I agree with your last point. I have noticed a bit of a lack of trust from clients recently. They value our ability to make quick changes, answer pings, and be available at all hours, but it is apparent that our lack of real expertise hinders us.

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Why would you later come back as a partner ? The entire point of partnership is to have a longer ramp. Direct hire partnership has massive bar

Also, I don’t know why you think you want partnership if you cannot handle internal pollitics and client relationships at your level. It’s a sales role.

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I have bad news for you… the downsides you describe is normal at senior levels everywhere.

Either you get used to that or you stall yourself professionally and don’t deal with internal politics as much as

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