What keeps you motivated and what do you love about consulting besides the money? Isn’t just sitting around waiting to be told what to do boring and makes you feel stupid?

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Diversity of projects and people

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Only good thing about consulting is a good exit

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Variety of work, generally clever people and continuous learning. Also pick a range of skills which makes you quite desirable when exiting out of consulting.

Good guess 😂

The continuous learning. You’re essentially a (relatively) high IQ gun-for-hire at the lower grades and keeping yourself entertained through learning and getting paid for it is why it’s worth coming back.

That, and attractive exit options when you leave.

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