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Ironically enough, that same person told me he is thinking about possibly starting a consulting business. They are the exact opposite of me. Top 20% of public speaking and soft skills. I learned the hard way about these types of people in my early 20s. The problem is Americans like talkers. They get rewarded on YT, etc.

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One of the Wall Street firms I worked at loved to bring in McKinsey consulting, drop $5 million bucks on them to conduct a study so that senior management could have a report to show the board of directors to get some new initiative approved. You'd think for 5 bills you'd get some pretty experienced people, right? Nah, bunch of 22 year olds who'd have a hard time making a bowl of cereal. And what went in the study? Whatever we told them. As if we couldn't have done this ourselves and saved the $. But the board would lap up anything that came from an outside consultant. Total circle jerk. I'm sure someone was getting their palm (and probably their dick) greased.

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