This job is the best I’ve had and I’m very happy. I work from home when not on the client premise.
- Typical travel time about 70% of the time but mostly 3-4 week trips
- Opportunity to explore world along-with the joy of working
- sometimes travel is with short-notice so it can be hard to plan
- Sometime long hours would mean you only see the inside of your clients’ buildings, your Hertz or Avis rental car, and your hotel room. Then you fly home. Rinse repeat. It can get old pretty quickly. Just my thoughts
- Flexibility is a key trait as is understanding that while the client isn’t always right, and it can be your job to help them understand that, they always think they are right and you need to be very diplomatic.
- Make a choice between 2 to 3 months at one client vs every 2 weeks at a different client
Downside…
- More then often you will find yourself in an assignment that would have been sold to customers with utterly unrealistic deliverable timelines, promised for the sole purpose of closing the sale with no regard to the fact that the consultants would be the ones to face the customer every day to try to actually make those unrealistic deliverable timelines.
- Unless you’re really careful, you WILL get fat as a traveling consultant, especially early on because you’re getting off work at 9PM and you just want to eat ANYTHING, and then you promptly go to sleep on that full stomach
- 75% travel = 75% on airplanes, in hotels and rental cars + 40 hours on the client site
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