Patrick Mosher warns that consulting can burn you out fast if you're chasing money and promotions instead of a deeper purpose. Without a daily sense of purpose, the client demands and promotion culture will chew you up and spit you out.
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Yeah, how do I know if maybe consulting isn't right for me? How do you know if consulting is not right for you? Because when you do it, you get spent. Again, as I said up front, this career will, will chew you up and spit you out because my job and the client's job is to consume you. And so I've seen people get consumed and then they're out because they want to chase the promotion, they want to chase the compensation, they want to chase the things that aren't really them. It will consume you unless you have this thing that you go like, "This is the thing." And it's hard, but every day you wake up going like, "This is the thing." If you don't find that soon enough, it'll consume you.