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Is consulting the best job in the world with the highest pay to work ratio

>> No.51249519

Lol no

Its good to learn about many different topics

You will be exploited to hell

Banks/ insurance companies probably the easiest jobs and paid in gold

Consultants are poorly paid

>> No.51249529

>>51249490
Every time this gets posted, I watch it over and over and get all pissed off beyond reason.

>> No.51249535

>>51249519
What if you don't do any overtime

>> No.51249546

>>51249535
you get fired

>> No.51249556

>>51249529
She became a consultant at 22, took me 5 years to get to her level :(

>> No.51249567
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51249567

What do consultants even do
I cant get an answer

>> No.51249569

I was consultant and literally the cuck managers allow women to skip their work and not do overtime but if you are a man you are fucked


You are so fucked

Can't count how many allnighters I did

>> No.51249584

>>51249567
Boring and difficult jobs that companies can't do

Or audit

>> No.51249601

>>51249535
lmao as if that is possible. You're naive

>> No.51249602

Nobody except for a few teenagers is impressed by these retarded videos. Touch grass.

>> No.51249624

>>51249601
Managers expect the work done today but if you tell them to register overtime they reject

Pretty much way of saying you gonna slave for free. Don't you know where you work at?

If consultants registered their overtime they would be the highest paid professionals. I've read that average in big4 overtime is around 500 up to 2000 hours for entry level positions

>> No.51249672

>>51249567
for any number of reasons, companies will hire second, or third party companies who promise no affiliation with the company hiring them to take care of tricky issues that they need resolved but don't want their own people to work on.

It can be audit work, like
>>51249584
anon says, financial, or things like "weeding out" staff or headhunting for new staff.

Say for example you're a big company and you've gotten word that one of your locations is corrupt. Real shady shit. You can't rely on anyone in your company to sort through who needs to be fired and kept. You also need to track down who in your company is breaking the law. You can't trust anyone in your own company so you hire another firm to comb through people and tell you who you should fire and keep. That is just one example. No one wants to say what kind of "consulting" they do because typically if you needs to bring in a consulting firm that means something is so fucked up beyond possibility that you and every company you deal with can't fix it.

>> No.51249673

>>51249567
They do what the company won't do.
But at a higher pay than the company's wagies

>> No.51249675

>>51249567
Ones I knew who came in to speak for college classes went into radio stations or phone company offices to clean house.

Did a weekly newsletter for the managers for months or a month.
Told them how to fire or make the dead weights quit. (Put a mother on the night shift for the radio station to make her eventually quit to get rid of her toxic ass)
Travelled a ton.
Taught workers more efficient ways to do the job or told them what was to be changed for better operations.
Wrote more reports for the offices they visited

Made them like 200k a year

>> No.51249754

>>51249601
>>51249546
>>51249624
Some consulting companies don't make you overtime. Especially if you're technical. My company told me that their work life balance is key

>> No.51249786

>>51249672
oh. and the other half of them don't say what they do because they're assholes dumb as fuck trying to sound as cool as possible. Looking at you interior decorators, office party planners, and landscapers

>> No.51249796

>>51249786
Hey those are called engagement Consultants

>> No.51249892

>>51249567
Sometimes management needs a ”second opinion” on something so they hire consultants. These are typically complicated problems the company doesn’t have that much knowledge or experience in

>> No.51249986

>>51249892
Neither do the consultants but they have to look like they know something

>> No.51250102

>>51249986
Maybe true sometimes and using consultants doesn’t necessarily mean the company will make better decisions, but it’s part of prudent top level management in larger corporations atleast

>> No.51250369

>>51250102
How is consulting compared to doing your own business

>> No.51251435

>>51249490
seems like a nice life if a bit boring/exhausting. I dont think she's getting enough rest, that or her workouts are more like 'warmups'

>> No.51251589

>>51249567
At my firm they do whatever the clients need assistance with in reason, wether it’s investigating fraud/money laundering for banks, audit/accounting shit or a broad range of IT stuff. I work on an IT team and we do a lot of stuff that’s basically like being a company’s SAP admin, or doing random stuff like maintaining databases/updating clients website surveys. Basically stuff the client doesn’t have the manpower to do or doesn’t want to create a full time position for.

>> No.51251659

>>51251589
I've seen government clients burn an insane amount on money on consultants. I think that might be because a full-time position has to be permanent and governments barely ever fire people. So if it's a temporary issue like cloud migration then they don't need a permanent position

>> No.51251705

>>51249490
imagine being in meetings 80% job and not actually contributing anything

>> No.51251740

>>51251705
yeah I'd like to be a consultant.