A Week in the Life of a Consultant
- Monday-Wednesday have been fairly difficult work days, as our team has been hard at work preparing for a meeting between our sexy client’s CEO and his top lieutenants — not the easiest way to start up work again after a week abroad in Japan.
- Today was much more laid back. We had an excellent team lunch (great sushi from a local place which I will definitely visit again), made even more excellent by the fact that the firm paid for it. Just before that, I had a pleasant chat with my last manager about my case-end performance review. To maintain work-life balance (Monday was the birthday of my teammate’s wife — which he had to miss because he was in the office until midnight), we were told to leave at 5 PM — an order I very happily carried out.
- Unfortunately, today was a very rainy day, which means that while it usually takes me 40-50 minutes to get home, it took me TWO HOURS to get home.
- Thankfully, tomorrow is our Community Impact Day, where our entire office will visit local non-profit charitable groups to help out — which is pretty incredible given that the firm is allowing those of us with no direct, immediate client needs to do something good for the community on company time. Following the community day, we are having a office-wide charity auction and trivia challenges and even a charity poker game all to raise money for some very worthwhile causes.
Tags: ConsultingThoughts, personal