[oneoff786]

An associate is typically a fresh MBA grad or someone with a few years of tenure out of school.

Awkward imbalance of levels aside, I enjoy the consulting lifestyle personally. It’s interesting to work with many different clients and have enough political clout to get things done on a fast timeline.

[rvba]

Consultants get things done? Apart from a deck of slides?

[afavour]

They do. The client paid a load of money to hear what the consultant said, there’s a lot of incentive to act on it otherwise you’re the exec that hired a load of consultants only to ignore them.

[WastingMyTime89]

Having been on the receiving end of two McKinsey decks, in my admittedly limited experience, no, they don't. But the package somewhat looks good.

[oneoff786]

Please tell me more about my job.

[rvba]

That used to be my job as well ;)

[oneoff786]

Then it seems you wasted your time.

[nice_terrible]

Don't forget the invoices.