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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Management consulting, 85K (first year out of college)[/quote]

just a innocuous question but how can someone just out of college do  "management" consulting?  What can they be consulting about?  Seriously, that must just be a title masking some other duties.[/quote]
I've always found "consulting" to be a total load of bullshit. What does that even mean? I know consultants, but that's mostly just the type of employment they have, not their duties. I do know one Management Consultant or whatever and she does actually basically bullshit for a huge corp that has tons of money to throw around. Good for her for making dough, but jesus it's just such a ridiculous racket because she doesn't actually DO anything.[/quote]

but what could a person just out of college know that management needs to be consulted about?  Maybe they're like an administrative assistant or something similar?[/quote]

They are on a consulting team and likely doing the financial analysis, or market analysis, or programming or whatever. They are not advising the CEO just yet. Many consulting projects are large and require a big team and lots of grunt work. They may be in the office or at the client site. I am a management consultant and started this way. Now I do advise top management.[/quote]

This is what i dislike about consultants - no real world experience, all theory. Yes, it sounds good in theory, but the devil is in the details. And for someone who goes into management consulting straight out of school, what real life experiences can you draw on other than what you read?[/quote]

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