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A young consultant"s life is tiring. A
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week starts before dawn on Monday, with a rush to the airport and a flight to
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the client is based. He can
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to stay in hotels at least three nights a week, gorging on minibar peanuts and gloomily texting a(n)
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lover. "It"s quite
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to spend a year living out of a suitcase," sighs one London-based consultant.
So the job
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"insecure overachievers"— a phrase
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used in the industry—"who are always worried that they haven"t done enough work," jokes a consultant. Some 60-65% of consultants are recent college-leavers. Most
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within a few years and take more settled jobs elsewhere in the business world,
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their experience and
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allow them to slot in several levels
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their less-travelled counterparts.
The elite consultancies have offices in big cities, which is where
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young people want to live. The best-paid jobs are in places
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London and New York. Such cities are also where the culture and dating
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are richest.
Such attitudes are frustrating for firms in Portsmouth or Peoria.
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consultancies benefit from it. They
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bright young things in the metropolis and then hire out their brains to firms in the sticks. This is one
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why consultants have to travel so much.
The system
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, more or less, for everyone. Firms in the provinces get to borrow talent they could not
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hire. And young consultants get to experience life in the real world before returning to the capital to party with their friends at the weekend. They have it all,
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enough sleep.