I LEFT CONSULTING. WHY & HOW? Can you? Environmental, Construction, Civil, & Engineering Industries.

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I worked in environmental consulting for 8 years between 2014 and 2022. I’ve been through what felt like “it all” and I know how tough it can be. I still look back at my experience fondly, but almost in the say way that veterans talk about war stories, it is definitely “Type B” fun.

I still talk to a lot of my friends from consulting and a lot of our conversations feel trauma bonded and I generally wonder if that has to do with my ability and impulse to reframe everything into a positive experience, because honestly, it was really really a difficult experience and I am happy to have made it into a different industry.

From early mornings (4am) on a barge in the middle of the coldest Feburary in DC, sticking my hands into ice cold water all day for water samples, to brutal summer days carrying heavy equipment around an active landfill, I really do think I experience all there was to experience physically and mentally at my previous job.

Depending on the project it could be incredibily boring and mentally un-stimulating (if you were stuck on an excavation), and at other times, it was extremely challenging and felt like the changes I was facing belonged to someone with much more experience and training than me.

I ultimately left the industry due to health challenges I was facing, which I also want to make a video about, but in retrospect there were a number of aspects of the job that left me unsatisfied and I think would have ultimately lead me to leave the industry eventually.

So how did I end up leaving consulting?
- I had the right motivation
- From working at previous consulting firms, I knew that many of the issues I was facing at my current company were industry wide and not specific to my company or position.
- I looked at where my higher ups and mid-level managers were and asked myself if they were living a life that I wanted
- I was very disillusioned by the industry
- It was affecting my health
- I was open to new experiences
- I was willing to work part-time or freelance
- I was willing to take a pay cut and be a beginner again

- I reached out to people within my network.

OPPORTUNITIES OPEN UP WHEN YOU OPEN UP

Look on LinkedIn for someone with the job title or position you’d like
- Ask them for a conversation about their job and how they got to where they were
- Don’t feel shy or like you are burdening these people.
- Most people LOVE talking about themselves and you will make them feel special
- Most people will tell you it was a crapshoot but it may give you some sort of a direction, path, or a list of contacts/companies to reach out to

KNOW YOUR WORTH
-Whether you think so or not, you do have marketable skills that can find you a job not in your industry
- You can apply the knowledge you’ve gotten from consulting to a number of different jobs if you think creatively

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☆ QUESTION ☆ Are you currently in environmental consulting or consulting in general?

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♡ TIMESTAMPS ♡
00:00 Intro
00:36 Why I Left
04:19 Timesheets
06:49 Mid-Level Positions
10:18 How I Left
10:21 Right Motivation
11:31 Being Open
11:56 Sunk-Cost Fallacy
13:21 Reached Out
15:37 Interviewed People
17:46 Know Your Worth

♡ HASHTAGS ♡
- #consulting
- #environmental
- #jobs