Dog years of Strategy Consulting...

Believe it or not the experience in the consulting industry is often referred to in dog years owing to the sheer speed of learning and exposure to various aspects of business. Every one year spent doing strategic consulting for any big firm is equivalent to 4 years of work in any regular job…or so the consultants like to think.

As a strategy consultant, you truly live the client’s years in a very short span. You have to figure out the past life of a company, decisions made, outcomes, industry changes and future roadmaps all in a matter of days and a room full of charts and graphics. It’s living the client’s life on steroids.

"Dogs mature faster than people, so if a dog is 4 in man years, they actually have covered about half of their expected lifespan. And the interesting fact is that they act like it too!"

We do have reason to believe dogs learn much quicker than humans do. The fact adds much relevance to the expression “Worked like a dog!” after a long hard day.

I am a 24 year old MBA student watching the best years of my life race in front of my eyes. According to the dog year’s analogy, I am gaining much maturity and experience really fast. Sometimes I just wish I could press the pause button and unplug for a few human seconds.

Comments

[Anonymous]

Seriously, get over yourself. I am a strategy consultant and I do not think I am superhuman as you profess yourself to be. I find my job challenging and I love it.

[paras]

With all due respect....I am not a strategy consultant myself...the post rather comes from the consultants I have interacted with....and is more targeted towards the steep learning curve that one experiences due to the nature of the job....not to mean that the consultants might not like their profession....

This was my first post so I may not have been able to articulate the idea very well ....but it was by no means intended to profess anyone to be a superhuman..

I welcome your comments on further posts and hope I can come closer to the real world issues and thoughts of consulting life....

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