What are the worst projects people have been staffed on? I wonder if it can get any worse than mine right now.

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A 'local' M&A project with stupid hours and an hour and a half commute there and back every day

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Any local project that involves DRIVING long hours, it's like you've been air dropped back into little suburbia

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Any engagement where the premise going in is to validate a decision the client is likely to make anyway.

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I had a remote project management engagement that involved scheduling calls and taking very METICULOUS meeting notes

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I'd say implementation projects where you working off recs that another firm has put in to the client. Goes well they get they credit, goes bad something wrong with execution

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Hello fishes,

I'm a Business Analyst with 1.2 years of experience and currently, I'm trying to switch to a different organization.

I have worked on and have been part of various analysis and case studies in my current project and have experience working on Bridge Insurity tool, Python , SQL ,C#, .NET, Data Structures and Algorithms.

Please let me know if there are any related opportunities in your firm.

Thankyou!

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