It’s 1.38am. You’ve finished off the last-minute #plsfix comments your partner left on the final deliverable SteerCo_Update_vFinal21. You’ve checked that the texts are all font size 12 Arial, all boxes are left aligned, footnotes and sources are all updated to say “Internal IP & analysis’’. You go to the bathroom for the first time in 15 hours.
As consultants, you spend about 85% of your waking hours trying to crack some of the toughest problems the corporate world can throw at you. So when can you find that time to monitor a stock portfolio, research investing trends, or understand new concepts like Web3? Your friends talk about “buying the dip”, and you thought it was some sauce for the cold dumplings at dinner that were formerly your lunch.
So what do you do with that big monthly paycheck? Leave it in a fixed deposit earning you less than the rate that food prices are going up....