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Jade Rubick - Curious about becoming an executive consultant?

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I’ve been doing advisory, fractional, and interim engineering leadership consulting for a couple of years now. People in my network contact me often because they are considering it for themselves. I wrote this up to share what I’ve learned over the years about being a consultant. You can optimize for money or for schedule flexibility. Optimizing for money requires working a lot harder than at a normal job. If you’re willing to focus on building a business (instead of whatever your specialty skills are), you can have a higher financial upside. For me the appeal was schedule flexibility rather than money. I enjoy the ability to shape my schedule. And I like that there are downtimes between large contracts. I make less than I would as a full-time engineering executive, but I have a lot more flexibility in my schedule. A second advantage for me is that I have accelerated certain types of learning. I’ve now worked at more than twenty startups. That gives me a skillset and a perspective I ne

I’ve been doing advisory, fractional, and interim engineering leadership consulting for more than five years now. People in my network contact me often because they are considering it for themselves. I wrote this up to share what I’ve learned over the years about being a consultant. Why consult? You can optimize for money or for schedule flexibility. Optimizing for money requires working a lot harder than at a normal job. If you’re willing to focus on building a business (instead of whatever your specialty skills are), you can have a higher financial upside. For me the appeal was schedule flex

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