What has more long-term earning potential, consulting or tech? E.g. climbing the partner ladder or going into product management and working up to a VP or CxO role?

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Climbing the ranks to partner then jumping to a CxO role. About to do it myself...

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Obviously tech can be more lucrative if you’re a founder or early startup employee - but let’s assume a typical tech enterprise environment here (Facebook, Salesforce, etc)

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Everyone wants to do product management after consulting it seems!

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Corporate world can be more lucrative with stock based comp, but neither is an easy path to the top.

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In general, being a corporate exec has more earning potential, but it's harder

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