Looking for advice (should I try to get a consulting job?)

Hi everyone, I'm looking for advice on whether or not I should try to get a job at MBB. I'm from Europe by the way.

Here's my current situation:
- Graduated three years ago from a university in another country (bachelor's degree)
- Spent two years at Big Four as an auditor (sad, I know)
- It's been one year since I started in my current role — Leadership Development Program at F100 company

My longterm goal is do PhD in Management and work at a university. I can't do that right now because I have nobody to write academic recommendation letters for me. I may be able to do MBA through MBB, so that may give me an opportunity to ask someone to write recommendations for me. I realise this route is going to take at least five years but my current company won't pay for my MBA.

Why do I want to leave industry? I dislike politics and I have to work with the same people all the time, pretty much. I liked it more in audit when my manager changed about once a month or two. It also bothers me that we constantly make presentations and yet few people do it right and a lot try to put in a lot of bullshit words so that people don't understand, pretend to understand and don't ask any questions. Finally, I really hate that managers can overrule you based on authority, not facts.

I realise I haven't worked in consulting and may dislike it for reasons I'm not yet aware of. I also realise that there may be politics in consulting too (of different kind).

Am I delusional? Should I go work at MBB if I can get in?

Any response is appreciated.

 
Best Response
Coda:
My longterm goal is do PhD in Management and work at a university.

As what? A professor?

Why do I want to leave industry? I dislike politics and I have to work with the same people all the time

If you think academia doesn't have politics, you have another think coming. And some of the people in my old department had been working together for ~40 years. I think those are terrible reasons to leave industry for academia.

Am I delusional?

Yep.

Should I go work at MBB if I can get in?

Yep. Notwithstanding anything else, MBB is a great place to work if you're not sure what you want to do next.

 

Thank you, I appreciate your response. I just thought that going back to industry/consulting from academia is not that difficult compared to opposite when you're like 30 and still need to do PhD — there's a good chance I'm wrong about that too :-)

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