Current consultants, what is your biggest pain point?

Most discussions on this site focus on how to get into consulting or speculate on potential exit opportunities.  But for those of you still in the trenches (like me), what are your biggest pain points?

Proposal writing/winning work (finding RFPs, managing the process, networking, etc.) ?

Deliverable based issues (data collection tools, data analysis tools, presentation prep, etc.)?

Project management (budgets, timelines, contractor management, mentoring, etc.)?

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