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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's better part-time work out there. I did association leadership and consulting for a couple of years after I had my kid and got to do the strategic, thought-partnership-type work you're describing.

I wonder why the part about your boss being 28 is bothersome to you? Maybe worth some reflection there. [/quote]

Because I too was at one point at 28 year old know it all and now realize how much experience i was actually lacking!  (i say that tongue in cheek.....but I do know well where I was at 28 with 4 years work experience and an mba versus now at early 40s with 10 years of actual operator experience)

Is the strategic / thought partnership work you do now consulting work? Can you give me a few examples of the types of projects / work and how you structure it?  In my 20s I was a consultant doing project based work at a big consultancy.  At the start-up I was at, the ceo (and therefore all of us) were a hard no on consultants unless it was just to outsource a functional area in the early days (accounting, compliance) or perhaps like one half day of expertise in something like health insurance contracting strategy.  We strongly felt that we knew the problem we were trying to solve / our product / the nuances of our environment far better than any consultant with general expertise could.

Which is now where I talk myself out of being able to be an independent consult.  My exec roles were on the operator / customer success / partnership side, so its not like I can pitch myself at a part time CFO.  And I drank the koolaid that i'd never be able to go in and tell a ceo how to better roll-out a product / service than they'd know living and breathing it ever day, except perhaps if they're very early stage and inexperienced in which case they couldn't afford a consultant.  I clearly need to expand my own thinking on the value I could bring as a consultant or the type of work an org could use a consultants help on.[/quote]

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