cyberhawk wrote:
ducceus wrote:
Cyber,
What make you want to become an MC ?
once I did it and enjoyed, it was in house consulting on the crossroads of operations and IT. then I went for 5 years in pure operations management. so now I see a natural step to combine both experiences and get to strategy consulting
One of my interviewer has a similar experience. He was a chemist working in operation management before INSEAD. After INSEAD, he worked for Mckinsey in Moscow Office and hate it. This is his experience though, but the common theme I asked about all former MC is that they feel like they spend endless time consulting the management, doing financial analysis, and for some reasons, the management decided to self the propose plan.
Most of the former consultants have this feeling like they do not do much impact, and sometime wasting their time to an extend. I did extensive research while weighting between MC and IB, and decide to go with IB for this reason. It boils down to 2 things when i talked/read about what former consultant and banker said
Consult: Give advice, but hardly ever implement-----> feel like a waste of time
Banker: Long hours, lack of work life balance (worse than consultant) ----> I can deal with long hours for a couple of years