Would you recommend consulting as a career path to a recent college grad?

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Depends on the what you want to do in life

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Yes, I'm at one of the Big 4 and I've gotten some awesome exposure. Though there are many other great paths...

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Yes, but you have to be smart about navigating the stigma (now meme) of 22 year olds telling CEOs and CFOs what to do…

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Yes! But as the others mentioned, it may depend on what kind of consulting you want to get into. Some paths are not as straightforward/available

You’ll work a lot and get paid decent money. Somehow it also provides decent exit opportunities so it just depends on if your okay working 45-60 hrs a week

good launchpad if you’re young and ready to work. relatively straightforward path to setting yourself up for future success. in other words, it’s hard to not end up living a great life if you start in consulting imo

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