Feras Alhlou argues that your experience in boring industries like healthcare, logistics, or finance is actually valuable leverage. Founders and career changers often dismiss this background as baggage, but it's the fastest path to consulting wins and real advantage.
There's a pattern I see over and over when people start a business. They feel the urge to reinvent themselves from scratch. I get it. I did that too. But here's the truth. The very thing you're trying to escape could be the key to your fastest wins. You might think your experience in healthcare, logistics, or finance is boring, or too niche or not transferable. But consulting thrives on specificity. What feels boring to you is gold to someone trying to solve a problem in that space. So if you've spent years inside a specific industry, that's not baggage, it is leverage.
