What motivates to stay in consulting other than making it to Partner/ MD level?
To Partner/ MDs- whats your goal after you reach to this position?
I feel consulting is only driven by sales

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Mine are (1) Working with smart people that I learn from (I have worked in industry and really struggled with some of the mediocrity/slower pace). (2) I work my ass off, but I have flexibility on how I do this. (3) I can be an entrepreneur to some extent and control how my practice grows/develops (4) Partner comp is very good.

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I'm motivated to work for low pay for seemingly impactful work on society.

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All business is driven by sales.

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Exactly. With sales you have government or not for profits.

Executives in all companies have client sales relationships.

The benefits, Work From Home, not having only 8 paid public holidays a year like Corporates do,a pension.

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Learning from different set up/ client/industry. Consulting to me is about gathering good, bad and ugly from all the sides and effectively filtering the right ones to use in future. Meeting different folks and making some extra money.

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Motivations-

Doing good, meaningful work
The money
PPMD

If the corporate ladder “levels” matter to you as motivation, there are additional levels once you make PPMD. That’s not the motivation for most PPMDs, but can be a goal if that matters to you

Thanks everyone for your point of view. Just trying to identify right purpose for myself to stay in consulting apart from money. May be, me being engineering background feel like I should be in developing something than implementing ready made tech solutions.

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