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[quote=Anonymous]The problem with these big companies, in my experience, is that you are constantly in danger of being laid off if your project stalls or is canceled or the company doesn't win the bid and the project goes bye bye. At that point you are on overhead, meaning you aren't being paid out of a project's budget but the company's, and that's bad news. They really  will only carry you on overhead 6-8 weeks. A good manager can help find another project to stick you on but you might be left scrambling to find another job. This happened to my husband not with Booz but with a competitor- he worked on a project for months and then the government decided to postpone the decision to award the contract for another year. He was warned he would need to get out or risk getting laid off because he couldn't be on overhead for a year. He did but it was stressful. And the same deal at the next company- if your division isn't winning contracts, they are quick to start cutting. It is really stressful to constantly worry about a lay off even as you're putting in tons of hours and doing good work. Just the nature of those companies though- every person is expendable at that level.

The good news is, he can leverage the position into jumping up and after a few years hopefully landing a director or VP position somewhere else. Long term at those contracting companies is hard to do these days though. You don't meet a whole lot of career guys who have been with the same company 25 years. He's going to have to job hop every 2-3 years to advance. [/quote]

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