Professional development, branding, & technology. Also, some other stuff.

I’ve been employed as a technology consultant for over two years now and in that time, I’ve come to appreciate a lot of the things to which I’m exposed. I’ve put together a list of some of the things for which I’m most grateful, and I hope that this becomes a helpful resource if you’re considering a similar career.

Without further ado, 25 things I love about Consulting:

1. Exposure to the latest and cutting-edge technologies.
2. Exposure to vastly different management styles and methodologies.
3. Exposure to different industries and corporate cultures.
4. Working with abstract problems and creating concrete solutions.
5. Understanding complex problems only after carefully listening to someone explain it.
6. Dealing with client egos, territorial habits, insecurities, and abrasive tendencies.
7. Learning how to “push back” against unreasonable client and management demands.
8. Learning how to ask questions until they get answered.
9. Having to become intimately acquainted with something completely foreign. Quickly.
10. Developing a sensitivity to tone, body language, and other nonverbal cues.
11. Learning how to speak the language of different corporate environments.
12. Learning the fine art of negotiation. Read the full article →

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