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Consulting and finance are lucrative, partially because there are serious demands of the job that you're not considering. * Working 7 days a week (in the offic
by dlokshin 15y ago
Consulting and finance are lucrative, partially because there are serious demands of the job that you're not considering.
* Working 7 days a week (in the office for 110 hours)
* Living out of a suitcase
* Often living out of a suitcase in the middle of nowhere
* Virtually no vacation
* Expectation that you'll forfeit a vacation if the firm needs you
* A lot of stress
And that's just the start of it. Plenty of people burn out and decide that the paycheck isn't worth it. Imagine that. You're making the mistake of only looking at the glamorous part of the job (the pay check) instead of actually taking a look at what the job entails.
Spoken from personal experience
- Hyena 15y agoThe difficulty or inconvenience of a job does not really imply additional remuneration. If it did, migrant farmworkers would probably be the richest people in the world.
- mchusma 15y agoThe difficulty does not, but pay is only one form of compensation. Those with the most opportunity have many good options, some with more pay, and some with better work conditions. in other words, if you need a smart person you need to compel them to work for you.
- Hyena 15y agoYes, but now you're making the skeptic's point: management consulting works by using the shock-and-awe of lots of Ivy League degrees to provide cover for management. In other words, a complete waste of shareholder money and employee time.