Got laid off from consulting. It was good learning while it lasted. I rather not go back. It has NO value for society.
@Adjacent_2
2 күн бұрын
I will suggest to anyone interested in consulting with far fewer downsides, I recommend long-term consulting with a Federal government agency. This has been my work for the past 4+ years, after escaping private sector consulting, and it literally saved my mental health. We function almost as an extension-of-staff (aka Feds without the pension) and provide program management, strategic development, scheduling, and cost estimating services to Federal acquisition programs. I rarely work longer than 9-5 and have very good flexibility with my schedule. My Federal clients are passionate and mission-driven, but very respectful of our work-life balance. We typically work 1-3 year contracts
@Jackyye
Күн бұрын
@@Adjacent_2 didn’t know about this thanks for sharing!
@Gabriel-wj8pd
21 сағат бұрын
Nice video! I'm a data engineer and noticed that many things you pointed out as tedious and boring work could be easily automated by scripts. Why do you think consulting firms don't hire programmers that automate internal stuff and make the consultants more productive?
@Jackyye
13 сағат бұрын
Honestly? I’m not sure they have an incentive to. The more hours used to do tedious manual work, the more the firm gets paid. Likewise for the analyst, their incentive is to bill lots of hours so even if they automate a task, they end up getting more work anyway. Put simply, efficiency isn’t incentivized. That’s the more cynical perspective anyway (which has some truth to it). Even in Econ consulting where we spend most of our time in programming (R, Python, SAS, Stata) and trying to automate work, there still ends up being lots of manual effort. Some other reasons - The cost of automating is too high or the precision too low - It’d be faster to brute force it than think of an elegant solution
@cod4ipodwaw
13 сағат бұрын
@@Jackyye Exactly this. There is systematic redundancy in order to give people jobs and therefore $$$ for the corporation. Across all the different orgs I've worked at there are varying degrees of this - but it holds true across all firms.
Пікірлер: 7