Posted by: fdpower September 13, 2016
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Yes , be happy with what you have. if you landed in a consultancy and still not happy with it , either you are not good at what you do or you chose the field that you dont like. I think the important part is to find what you love. It took me 3 majors and 7 years to find what I like ..it came with its own form of struggle ...but after I realized what I wanted to become things started to align better and got lot easier. I got offers based on the enthusiasm I had for the job, rather than the skills I had for it.
I was one of those who was scared to go through consultancies because I didn't think I would survive the pressure and lying. I though it would be easier to get a fancy full time after college but 3 months down the road waiting , I got an only offer from the smallest of startups , there were 3 employees in that company. The office space was smaller than my 1 bedroom studio and we were working about 16 hours a day. Not because we were building another facebook in there but mostly because we were so amature on what we were doing that it would take us hours to figure out a simple issue. Everything I learnt in college felt worthless , every new technology was a beast of its own so it was like another form of school were we would go through the admin guides for days and try to implement it. I was frustrated , underpaid and mostly overwhelmed by the things I needed to learn, but after a year things got a lot better ...I was getting offers from bigger companies and finally accepted an offer from a company and have been working there since. I still have a lot of aspirations and feel somewhat unsatisfied with myself but when I look back, I feel like I came a long way up from getting expelled from 2 high schools back home and almost failing it.
Consultancy folks I know have similar struggles , I see them studying and working after hours to getup to speed at work. In the end the take-away is to stay happy with what you have and learn to love what you do.
PS. the startup that I worked for was sold for 8 Mils last year.
I was one of those who was scared to go through consultancies because I didn't think I would survive the pressure and lying. I though it would be easier to get a fancy full time after college but 3 months down the road waiting , I got an only offer from the smallest of startups , there were 3 employees in that company. The office space was smaller than my 1 bedroom studio and we were working about 16 hours a day. Not because we were building another facebook in there but mostly because we were so amature on what we were doing that it would take us hours to figure out a simple issue. Everything I learnt in college felt worthless , every new technology was a beast of its own so it was like another form of school were we would go through the admin guides for days and try to implement it. I was frustrated , underpaid and mostly overwhelmed by the things I needed to learn, but after a year things got a lot better ...I was getting offers from bigger companies and finally accepted an offer from a company and have been working there since. I still have a lot of aspirations and feel somewhat unsatisfied with myself but when I look back, I feel like I came a long way up from getting expelled from 2 high schools back home and almost failing it.
Consultancy folks I know have similar struggles , I see them studying and working after hours to getup to speed at work. In the end the take-away is to stay happy with what you have and learn to love what you do.
PS. the startup that I worked for was sold for 8 Mils last year.