September 14th in Uncategorized by jason2009 .

“The 10 things I most dislike about Consulting are…”

Now more than ever, Management Consultants are having to take tough decisions about whether to stick out their consulting careers. In a climate where fast-track career progression has been replaced by career stagnation, we thought we’d take a tongue-in-cheek look at the 10 best and 10 worst aspects of sticking with consulting for the coming year.

1) Trying to explain at social occasions what it is you do for a living.

2) Finding that outside of an elite band of MBA …

 

Now more than ever, Management Consultants are having to take tough decisions about whether to stick out their consulting careers. In a climate where fast-track career progression has been replaced by career stagnation, we thought we’d take a tongue-in-cheek look at the 10 best and 10 worst aspects of sticking with consulting for the coming year.

1) Trying to explain at social occasions what it is you do for a living.

2) Finding that outside of an elite band of MBA alumni, consulting ranks barely ahead of car salesman or estate agent in the social pecking order.

3) Getting up for the Monday morning red-eye flight only to find it’s been delayed – or worse still you’ve missed it owing to a no-show from your taxi company.

4) Discovering from classmates that you’d be well on the way to retirement if you’d only gone into banking.

5) Seeing managers at your client swan off home hours before you do – whilst having a sneaking suspicion they’re actually pulling in more bacon.

6) Getting a rude awakening that when the economy turns south there’s even less job security in consulting than there is in industry.

7) Ordering yet another >9pm pizza delivery to the office… and then discovering they messed up your favourite topping

Finding your hotel has assigned you a smoking room for the week.

9) Chasing up room service

10) Filling in expenses claims

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