Goodbye Dallas!

(MBA,Booz) Nine weeks had passed in the speed of light; it feels like only yesterday we went through training in New Jersy and now I’m already in the airport on my way back home to Ann Arbor.

The past few days were very exciting, my analytical model was put into use and its results will be utilized to let the customer take a very important decision. In parallel to that, I presented a deck to the Dallas office, summarizing my past nine weeks.

If I try to summarize these nine fast going weeks, I think that first of all it was a very good learning, I learned about the consultant way of life, the Booz culture and about myself. And most important of all I learned that I would really like to do this work as a full time. It is an ever changing work; new challenges arise every day and with every customer. This job takes you out of your comfort zone on a daily basis, some people might not like this idea but for me it’s a thrill! I believe this type of challenges keep you sharp and assure that boredom will not be part of the daily routine.

One of the fundamentals of being a consultant is working in a team, the experiences I had with my team were amazing, it was a group of talented people who played a major part in my final decision to pursue this career path. I found out that Booz consulting teams are very supportive and are also fun to go out with after the working hours.

My internship had taken me through all kind of experiences with my teammates and taught me some values!

I learned the value of friendship when I got stuck with one of my teammates on a shaky plane for two hours because the pilot didn’t succeed landing due to crazy weather, another teammate taught me courage when he managed to convince the whole team to eat at the 105 degrees, a vegan raw food restaurant; Artistic ability was presented by my managing partner as he prepared his famous smoked ribs in a BBQ; I learned common sense when one of my teammates convinced me to eliminate all the macros from my over engineered Excel model though another key learning was pride of ownership which made me keep some of them at the end of the day ;-)

So this is the end of my blog, it was a pleasure sharing my experiences with you and I hope that some of my writing gave you some insights about the consulting world.