What's wrong with operational work? Why hate?
Just curious, why do a lot of people on this form look so poorly upon "execution and project management" and operation work? To me, they are key functions that would help any business and are just as, if not more, important than strategic work.
Is it boring, not intellectually stimulating...?
If I were to look at someone's resume and see that she reduced costs by 25%, that would be just as impressive as someone saying that he helped introduce company X to market Y.
Better just do a search, it's been talked about since the beginning of time.
There's nothing wrong. Operations wizards at portfolio comanies in PE make good money.
Do what you want. Just keep an eye out for what others are doing to give yourself some ideas on what you might like. But don't think those finance or consulting jobs are everything.
There is nothing intrinsically wrong with 99% of jobs in any field. It's just a matter of how it fits your personality, goals, etc. Some people probably like ops, just like there is probably a guy that loves his job as a prison chef. To answer your question, most people don't work as hard as they can to get into XXX bank in order to do back office type work. It's just a matter of preference and drive.
Only my two cents: Assuming we're talking strategic vs. operational consulting, I think the difference in glamor comes from the thought that Strategy consulting is performed traditionally at a higher, executive level of clients, where as operational work can be solely middle management for some projects. Also, if you would be looking to PE as an exit opp for example, strategic thinking is clearly more valuable than PM & Ops work. From an MBA perspective, both set you up quite nicely.
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I do operations consulting, and it can be painful at times. If you are just doing high level recommendations, it's all good. But if you are also responsible for implementing something like cost cutting (which turns into taking money out of people's budget or negotiating), it can turn into a slogfest. Also as someone mentioned, depending on the company size, you may not be chatting up with the CFO on a daily basis, etc. so very high level exposure can be limited. Also just by the nature of business, many times operations deals with 'back office', so it just may not sound as glamorous. On a good note, you learn quite a bit about how the company function in detail.
Operations consulting =/= operations.
A lot of very smart people end up in operations. There is nothing wrong with it--pay is decent, hours much better than most FO gigs, plenty of job security, etc.--but it is not as intellectually stimulating nor does it give you as many other opportunities as FO work. Ops people, in some places, are also not necessarily treated as well by others as they ought to be (ie not respected for whatever reason).
Dude, strategy consulting is more prestigious so its better.
Operational consulting is for state school kids.
Ignorance at it's finest...... what can you do that a state school kid can't do?
Some of the brightest most ambitious grads are from State schools. Strat can definitely sound more prestigious, but both ops and strat are pretty good places to be right now.
Just be happy your not in logistics, supply chain, or IT consulting... I heard that stuff is pretty rough.
If you're bitter about not getting into Stanford and got stuck at Berkeley instead, you'd be bitter if you got stuck in ops consulting.
On the flip, if you swallowed your pride and accepted your second-tier status in life and actually came to /enjoy/ Berkeley, you'll probably also learn to love the safety job that is operational consulting.
Don't worry - do what you want and what you are passionate about
All SCM Consulting is not IT Consulting. You could be working on distribution network strategy or global sourcing or reverse logistics or manufacturing/demand planning, etc. that may have no IT other than getting the data dump.
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