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:
- Exposure to the latest and cutting-edge technologies.
- Exposure to vastly different management styles and methodologies.
- Exposure to different industries and corporate cultures.
- Working with abstract problems and creating concrete solutions.
- Understanding complex problems only after carefully listening to someone explain it.
- Dealing with client egos, territorial habits, insecurities, and abrasive tendencies.
- Learning how to “push back” against unreasonable client and management demands.
- Learning how to ask questions until they get answered.
- Having to become intimately acquainted with something completely foreign. Quickly.
- Developing a sensitivity to tone, body language, and other nonverbal cues.
- Learning how to speak the language of different corporate environments.
- Learning the fine art of negotiation. (more…)