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.
As what? A professor?
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.
Yep.
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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