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Old Mar 7, 2017 | 8:14 am
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Originally Posted by LondonElite
If you meet the high bar of qualifications that someone like McKinsey sets, you'll no doubt embrace the totality of the question you are asking. You'll also probably understand that your typical working day, whether in London, Bangalore, Leeds, Berlin, or Bangkok is largely spend in a windowless war-room in your client's office, sparring with PowerPoint, Excel, and their cousins, including the company's last seven years of performance data. After thirteen weeks of flying in on the first Monday flight and returning back to base on the last Thursday flight to have an office day on Friday, you'll have a different view of the travel. I doubt you'll refer to it as 'jetting off'.
Agree. My consultant life was 100-weeks, every week. No friends, no family. And this was for a not-for-profit, so you can add in all coach-class travel, Best Western and Ramada hotels... I can say it was "for a good cause" but only so long.
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