Why is everyone on here so depressed? Consulting is a lucrative industry with that pays an excellent salary and offers wide variety of interesting projects.. Exit opportunities are endless as well..

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OP are you an experienced hire? It's the ones straight out of school that whine the most in my experience. I share in some of the complaints but know that it beats the hell out of what I was doing before... Tripled my salary in 2 1/2 years without moving, just changing companies.

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Ah, cyber security. Okay yeah, wish that was what I wanted to do. But OP what I think you're missing is that most people here don't have the same work life balance we have at Booz. It makes all the difference.

Working all the time makes you miserable in a way that isn't always obvious until you stop and start to get your life back and realize what it feels like to be human again.

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Get your non-depressed a$$ outta here. This is a bowl for miserable consultants.

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He is clearly on something and it's not kool aid.

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Manager 1 is having a mental break of some kind?

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They are paying for my masters rn and my work life balance is excellent on my project so I can't complain 😎

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Lots of hours and the reality of a travel lifestyle is not nearly as glamorous as the recruiters make it sound

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Lol just wait OP. The depression will set in soon.

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HR TROLL

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Because millennials are cry babies

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That Booz work life balance though is 👌🏽

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And entitled

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This BA1 👆🏽 this is accurate af! Having worked at several firms represented here on the bowl; I can say, without a doubt, Booz had the best work life balance when I was there 😌

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Lmao M1 thank you for the poignant reminder that the GOP of today is greedy, corrupt, and indifferent to the middle class and below

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How were you able to work out getting your master's paid for? Inquiring minds want to know...

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P1, what firm do you work for? You sound like a terrible leader.

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Environmental Protection Agency

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Perhaps some of the people here are sufficiently self-conscious to acknowledge how much of a sham parasitic industry Consulting is?

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@A2 the key is working smart

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@BA1 We have a partnership with Maryland where they will pay for a Cybersecurity masters degree if you stay with the firm for 2 years after completion

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