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> I read anecdotally that consulting firms are hiring. Seems yucky but a job's a job. Doubt you meant it to be friend but this is pretty insulting. I've worked

> I read anecdotally that consulting firms are hiring. Seems yucky but a job's a job. Doubt you meant it to be friend but this is pretty insulting. I've worked in consulting for 6 years and much prefer it to the 5 years I spent in products. I get to learn at a very deep level about various production processes and the real problems that affect actual workers. I then get to collaboratively build solutions which help those people. Consulting isn't all figuring out how to upsell clients on some cloud consumption they don't need.

wokwokwok 4y ago
What sort of hours do you work? (: My experience has been has consulting is very lucrative, very intense work, with periods of being paid to sit on a chair and do nothing because of (corporate reason if the day here). Furthermore, you’re never “part of the team”, you’re “that extra guy who leaves in 12-18 weeks”, and although you form lots of trivial connections, you don’t stay around long enough to form deep relationships with any work colleagues. There are also plenty of “cog in the machine” consultancy firms that just hire whatever random dickhead and give them a training course or two then fob them off to companies that need an expert in whatever the flavour of the day is. You join the ranks of consultants, you get the skeptical looks from other folk who’ve encountered clueless consultants. For better or worse, you get judged for it. If that’s what you’re into, sure. …but it’s not a great job for everyone. Yucky doesn’t necessarily mean “slimly sales job”; it might just mean, not a comfy 9-5 job.
- fy20 4y ago
  Sounds better than working at a startup, where you are being underpaid with the promise of options at IPO, where you constantly finish late in the evening and are always in panic mode to get "the next big thing" done. (My experience working at various small - medium startups for most of the past decade)
John23832 4y ago
Just because you like it doesn't mean that they can't find it "yucky". It's not insulting, it's their opinion of the job. Some people find that being a doctor is "yucky" because they don't like bodily fluid. That says nothing about the job of doctor. Anecdotally, I've done the consulting circuit and similarly respond with an instinctive "yuck".
throwawaybbq1 4y ago
Great point that consulting provides a window into the processes of various clients and across industry. I apologize .. did not mean to be insulting. It is not my cup of tea as I do deep tech/infra, but I appreciate how solutions are what generate value for individual firms. Comment was really there to help kickstart discussion on what jobs/sectors/companies will continue to hire (e.g. someone posted an insight that defense demand is strong). I still have my job at a big name tech firm but I don't know how others (or myself) will be able to get a job at the same/similar brand (doing AI/infra) in the next year. As others have commented, companies benefiting from low-interest, high demand will be under belt-tightening for a while (not even sure if we will be out of this mess in a year).

wokwokwok 4y ago

What sort of hours do you work? (: My experience has been has consulting is very lucrative, very intense work, with periods of being paid to sit on a chair and do nothing because of (corporate reason if the day here). Furthermore, you’re never “part of the team”, you’re “that extra guy who leaves in 12-18 weeks”, and although you form lots of trivial connections, you don’t stay around long enough to form deep relationships with any work colleagues. There are also plenty of “cog in the machine” consultancy firms that just hire whatever random dickhead and give them a training course or two then fob them off to companies that need an expert in whatever the flavour of the day is. You join the ranks of consultants, you get the skeptical looks from other folk who’ve encountered clueless consultants. For better or worse, you get judged for it. If that’s what you’re into, sure. …but it’s not a great job for everyone. Yucky doesn’t necessarily mean “slimly sales job”; it might just mean, not a comfy 9-5 job.

fy20 4y ago
Sounds better than working at a startup, where you are being underpaid with the promise of options at IPO, where you constantly finish late in the evening and are always in panic mode to get "the next big thing" done. (My experience working at various small - medium startups for most of the past decade)

John23832 4y ago

Just because you like it doesn't mean that they can't find it "yucky". It's not insulting, it's their opinion of the job. Some people find that being a doctor is "yucky" because they don't like bodily fluid. That says nothing about the job of doctor. Anecdotally, I've done the consulting circuit and similarly respond with an instinctive "yuck".

throwawaybbq1 4y ago

Great point that consulting provides a window into the processes of various clients and across industry. I apologize .. did not mean to be insulting. It is not my cup of tea as I do deep tech/infra, but I appreciate how solutions are what generate value for individual firms. Comment was really there to help kickstart discussion on what jobs/sectors/companies will continue to hire (e.g. someone posted an insight that defense demand is strong). I still have my job at a big name tech firm but I don't know how others (or myself) will be able to get a job at the same/similar brand (doing AI/infra) in the next year. As others have commented, companies benefiting from low-interest, high demand will be under belt-tightening for a while (not even sure if we will be out of this mess in a year).