Consultants make $175,000 right out of business school. But some of them have nothing to do — so they're just sitting around getting paid.

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Recent hires, fresh out of business school, at some big consulting firms don't have enough work to do. They're spending the idle time meal-prepping, taking naps, and even applying for other jobs, the told The Wall Street Journal.

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I burned out at McKinsey and quit the elitist consulting lifestyle. The workload was mentally straining and I felt myself losing my humility.

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Angelina Lu took a pay cut to quit management consulting and join a tech startup.

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These 25 companies have the highest-paying internships of 2023 — with some paying more than $9,000 a month

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Tech, finance, and consulting firms dominated Glassdoor's list of the highest-paying internships of 2023.

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Blue-chip consulting firm Bain is reportedly offering new hires $20,000 to become yoga instructors or go on safari for a year

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Bain is reportedly offering new MBA hires tens of thousands of dollars to delay their start at the consulting firm.

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I turned my consultancy side hustle into a full-time business and book using these two strategies

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Ashley Stoyanov Ojeda
Ashley Stoyanov Ojeda is a consultant and author

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