Warning: if you are a consultant by profession, you are most likely to use the ‘comments’ section of this post to say something.
Warning2: if you are a consultant by profession, and it is your birthday today, you are most likely to search Wikipedia for ‘headfake’ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_fake). 
Biography of a consultant:
- you are a bright kid. You are most likely to top your class.
- you come out of your school with impressive credentials. You are most likely to pursue what your parents, relatives, and society in general have thought about you – an Ivy League college education.
- you come out with flying colors from your undergrad college and market is flourishing. You are most likely going to be a ‘trainee consultant’ with a big consultancy firm.
OR
- you come out with flying colors from your undergrad college and the market is not flourishing. You are most likely going to go to another Ivy league college for an MBA. you come out with flying colors from your grad college and this time the market is flourishing. You are most likely going to be a ‘trainee consultant’ with a big consultancy firmbe a ‘trainee consultant’ with a big consultancy firm.
- you work with clients who have recruited your ‘remaining co-students’. You are most likely the sharpest brain in the meeting room full of clients.
- you make a lot of money from them. You are almost never likely to write an article like the following: http://tech.mit.edu/v130/N18/dubai.html
- you live happily after. You are most likely to parent “ivy league educated kids who become ‘trainee consultants’”.
Biography of an ex-consultant:
- you write the above article. It is most likely to be read by your non-consultant, ex-co-students. They smirk and say “I knew it. You are a dumb-ass for quitting!”
- you start working on a project to “determine the value of morality in currencies of the world”, and realize the complexity involved, and give up when you realize the futility! You are most likely to think of approaching a big consultancy for a job again.
And what about the project to “determine the value of morality in currencies of the world”? You are most likely to hold a drink in your hand and mumble, “dil ko bahelane ke liye, yeh khayal accha he, Ghalib”!
Posted by Sakshi on October 7, 2010 at 10:53 pm
Solution here is not be a consultant , who is analysing data to help clients make money. Rather be a Trader and use ur wisdom directly to make money. And then there would be no more head fake.