What’s something you miss most about consulting?

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The ability to use the “I was traveling excuse” when I missed an email.

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I’ll go first... the social environment. Loved getting lunches, dinners, drinks with my colleagues... moved to a smaller, older demographic company and didn’t hit me till I didn’t have it

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None of these things exist anymore due to covid, so you really aren’t missing anything.

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Points, points, points

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The in-person interaction for sure

I miss travel and building camaraderie at the site, but like a more condensed travel LOL. My client is in Seattle, so I’m not getting to go out as much.

That special feeling you get after your client asked your Partner for something that is impossible to deliver (say, a time machine) and Partner forwarded that request to you and asked for eow completion, and you put together a whole white paper citing Novel Prize laureates and leading industry experts' opinions explaining why this CANNOT be delivered, and Partner failed to communicate it to client and simply said, "They didn't do it", and client got all pissed off and fired YOU on the spot.
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