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It’s really not the same. When I was in my 20s, I was fortunate to get a slew of good traveling projects. Racked up points while doing flex trips and became really good friends with a group of my colleagues. And we had tons of team events during the week too with some pretty big and wild go-live parties.
Take all that away and you’re just working 60-70 hours a week and wondering why you aren’t just working a much easier job in industry for similar or more pay.
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Family and home/real life
Haha fair enough - for me working from home allows me to work on my hobbies (rock climbing) and other side projects I wouldn’t be able to do while travelling. Each to their own
Consulting is not worth it IMO without the travel perks (points, flex, expensed parties and meals)
I can work less and make just as much in industry, and still have more in person interaction than now.
Not saying I want 100% travel ever again, but I’m sticking it out now for the hope we may get 25-50% in the future. With each passing day I feel less confident in this and start evaluating exits even more.
Chief
traveling for work is like the dining hall in college. the first few weeks it’s awesome you’re loving the variety and everything and then bye week three you’re like get me home
Chief
Consulting for financial services is a lot better in terms of locations (unless you’re aligned to insurance). About the worst place you’ll get sent is St Louis.
Pre-pandemic I was a very heavy traveler and enjoyed it a lot.
Chief
Without the travel and in person events, consulting is not fun. It’s just well paid drudgery.
I’m holding on in the hope that we get at least some of it back. Realistically if travel is permanently less across the industry, then margins are going to diminish as firms need more office space, and they’re going to need to pay us more to compensate for the loss of perks. Conservatively my status/points/miles are worth an extra $10K in comp.
SM3 who is this resource that both wants to stay at home for better WLB but doesn’t mind working typical consulting hours?
A lot of our projects work because people buy into the work hard, play hard mentality - take away the second part and you’re just asking people to work hard. And only way to sustain that is to pay them more.
Also disagree on proving we can work from home. For existing clients comfortable with us - sure. New clients are tougher - it’s hard to build a good relationship with someone new entirely remotely.
Virtual hangover!
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Money
I’m not insisting you’d make a ton of money in consulting. It’s a good start and pays more than most jobs out of undergrad. Also, your point proves mine, you have good exit opps = more money later on. Of course, I’m planning on doing the same by leaving in 2 years to make more money.
Chief
If you’re only in this job for the travel I recommend looking elsewhere. In my first 3 years I was on almost exclusively local projects (not by choice) so it’s never guaranteed regardless of covid.
I do agree though in general that there is zero fun left in this job. I didn’t even like the travel but I enjoyed the team room environment, working directly with clients, the team bonding, etc. Without that it’s just painful drudgery and stress by yourself. No one is going to stay for long unless we get back to some semblance of the old world.
That's why we're back to full travel, upgraded our offices, and get lots of money from HR for team events.
Rising Star
Being on my couch is the fun
In 2019
Chief
The excel files