Consultancy. Ho.
Sep. 27th, 2006 09:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
featherynscaleI've just spent the last two days at a management meeting for which we paid a consultant an unreasonable (though not obscene, we are a nonprofit) amount of money to teach such advanced concepts as owning your own shit, having integrity, and distinguishing facts from myth. Every time I go to one of those things, and witness the amazement of my co-workers at the effectiveness of this really base-level stuff, I think to myself, "Self, your future career is in corporate consultancy".
For extra bonus points, the consultant asked me at a break something on the order of, "So, you seem to be really up on this stuff, have you been trained in it before?". And I wanted to say, "Yes, I'm a magician." But that's not the sort of thing you say to corporate consultants, is it? But yes. I do what I say I will do. I analyze systems and determine how to be most effective with least effort. I try not to expend energy without having a purpose and understanding what that purpose is. I try to live with no expectations of result. And so on.
It's a racket, but it seems to be a racket that helps people, and it seems to be a racket that pays pretty well. I'm not sure how you get into it, but I am resolved to find out.
For extra bonus points, the consultant asked me at a break something on the order of, "So, you seem to be really up on this stuff, have you been trained in it before?". And I wanted to say, "Yes, I'm a magician." But that's not the sort of thing you say to corporate consultants, is it? But yes. I do what I say I will do. I analyze systems and determine how to be most effective with least effort. I try not to expend energy without having a purpose and understanding what that purpose is. I try to live with no expectations of result. And so on.
It's a racket, but it seems to be a racket that helps people, and it seems to be a racket that pays pretty well. I'm not sure how you get into it, but I am resolved to find out.
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Date: 2006-09-27 03:00 pm (UTC)Apparently my file at HR is now several inches thick, most of which stems from comments I've made while at work ...
On a vaguely related note, apparently you're not supposed to comment on somebody's "treasure chest" even if it IS talk-like-a-pirate-day.
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Date: 2006-09-27 03:03 pm (UTC)