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Everything I have heard about consulting is the hours and the travel are brutal if you have a family. Gone 6-9 months of every 12 would be a long time to be awa
by stevenhubertron 6y ago
Everything I have heard about consulting is the hours and the travel are brutal if you have a family. Gone 6-9 months of every 12 would be a long time to be away from my children. Is that your experience?
- disgruntledphd2 6y agoYou don't want to work for a consulting company (i.e Accenture, KPMG etc), you want to be a consultant. For the first type of role, you're essentially hired help to solve non-technical problems in broken well-capitalised businesses, whereas in the second you're hired individually for your own skills. The second type are normally much more flexible with respect to remote and lack of travelling.
- caymanjim 6y agoDepends on what kind of consulting company you work for. The ones I work for historically only engage with long-term local clients. I normal embed with client teams, full-time, at the client office. With covid, everything is remote, probably forever, so that will change, but I'm still effectively embedding with client teams. It's like being a normal full-timer, but I get to change jobs ever 6-24 months.