When you tell your friends you do consulting, what's the most common response you get?

Mine is: so what the f**k do you actually do?

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Usually one of:
(1) “consult on what?”
(2) “why can’t companies do that themselves (often extension of (1)”
(3) “sounds very buzzwordy”
(4) “so you work in IT but you’re not a developer”
(5) “how did you become an expert”
(6) “I thought Deloitte were an accounting company”
(7) “oh yeah…didn’t you guys get a load of money to f**k up test and trace?”

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Number 7 is spot on tbf but I'm sure the VPs aren't complaining

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