Any of y'all travel M-F every week for your job? Any Big 5 consulting firm employees in the house who are road warriors? Do you like or hate the lifestyle? Does the money make up for the travel? I'm being pursued and trying to figure out if I would like the lifestyle. Never had that kind of job before. Thanks.
I drive anywhere from 2,500 to 4,000 miles a month around Houston and SE Texas. I love the freedom of being able to make personal calls whenever I want, the freedom to stop and eat whenever I want. Basically, I get the chance to take care of a ton of personal stuff in between stops. That being said, being in traffic all day sucks (although after a while, you get the hang of avoiding bad areas of town), the cost of gas, and the cost of upkeep on my POS car. Overall, I could never go back to a 9-5 office job after having the freedom I have being on the road.
Get a job in IT, you have all that personal freedom plus the ability to post on CF.net all day long in an airconditioned office
At our place we also get free coffee, free groceries with frozen foods, chips, bread, meats, etc., free cokes, and the all important 401k. lol. Oh yeah, and I get to leave my house at 85 degrees when I'm not home.
FYI fellas....this is a job with a Big 5 consulting firm (in IT), where I would be flying out to a city in the US every Monday, living in a hotel during the week, and flying back to Houston every Friday. And that would be for each week for as long as the individual project would last. Anyone of you currently on a gig like that?
i think there was previously a thread on this. you have to tell us more information first like do you have a family? married? ready to settle? still in party mood? how long is this for? a year? more? big or small cities? all these in my mind play a role. but i believe the consensus from my friends is that it's neat at first but it wears off quickly and the time they are away from home stinks.
I'm also curious, as consulting is a very big deal up here in my program at CMU. Most of the folks here want to go into consulting, and consulting companies target us pretty strongly. Personally, I've never been big into the idea of consulting from a corporate perspective, as it always seems to me that companies spend huge amounts of money to find out things that they already knew, and they could've used that money to solve the problem. But it's obviously more complicated than that, and if it pays well, so be it. I'm mostly interested in computer security consulting, so I'm looking into E&Y and Booze-Allen. But the thought of being on the road 24-7 seems like it would get old for me REALLY fast. I'd like to do it if it were on my own terms (no job - see the country -- that's my life dream), but having to work on the road, and bring suits and nice clothes and blah blah blah, seems to me to be a big hassle.
http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?t=89290&highlight=consulting Starting the same thread in less than a year. Wow. You've really killed off a lot of brain cells in your day, RM Tex.
I doubt he forgot he started that thread. Regardless, I'm happy and honored to say I've killed off a lot of brain cells with him. Thanks RMTex!!
Single, never been married, no kids. This is for as long as I want to do it. The cities will be big. Those that were mentioned are all in the southern US....Atlanta, Dallas, etc. The money is righteous, as well.
Thanks for checking. I knew that thread was somewhere. So which Big 5 firm do you work for, bigtexxx?
