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I'm so jaded 😬
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I have a feeling many consultants get the false impression that they are ahead of the curb compared to industry counterparts to feel good about themselves.
Is life a race?
K1 it's fact. Consulting experience is generally a fast track. 5 years in consulting can land you in a job where most of your peers are a several years older than you. Although, if you do the math on hours worked, you may break even. P2 nailed it, at this point I can't imagine working in industry. I get bored too easily and need the change and pace I get from consulting. Expect it will change eventually.
Principals goin philosophical on Fishbowl. *Turning back to email* "Sell more"... "Bill more"
Do what you love, love what you do.
The consulting fast track only really applies late in the game. Promotions are about the same at the first few levels
I'd suggest you look at your direct client counter part for another datapoint. They are typically several years older.
I disagree that the first 5 years puts you ahead of industry roles. I would say that depends on what you decide to compare consulting to. It's not as black and white as you think
K1 that's fair. I'm using strategy consulting and mature industries like banking, physical consumer goods, or industrial as a base line. Other practices and industries will have differing results. If you're a developer doing some back office programmer vs developer at a funded Cognitive start-up it's a different story.
Me.
And apparently many people are in agreement with me so far, sm1...
I work in an internal back office role at Kpmg and here promotions are only slower from associate director and up. Associate, senior associate, and manager are about the same if you started here out of college. It gets very
political after that and requires someone to either leave or get promoted
Salaries are the same too with the exception that non promote raises tend to be smaller, but it evens out once promoted
I also work with people decades older than me and replaced a man who was decades older than me after 6 months of working. Many people aren't as ambitious as us and don't aim high which is part of the reason why I think you see the age gap you do.