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Thanks. I guess I’m just starting to lose the hunger in my current role, and I’m worried it’ll eventually impact performance. Just feel stagnant.

Are you on a visa?

No

You are under 30 and already a SM?good job.

Thanks. Feel like I’m burning out on it though. I hate the busy work, the admin stuff, general dumb staffing issues. It’s zapping my creativity.

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Your pay isn’t strong for the big firms. I’m at tier 2 and standardized manager pay is 240 first year just base and bonus. Another 10% profit sharing. You can look elsewhere for better pay

Thanks. Should have mentioned I don’t have an mba. Tier two as in Oliver Wyman, etc? I have looked but at the manager levels it seems not a lot of roles are listed. I also don’t travel (pre covid too) in this role which is nice.

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