At my first job, I was an entry level consultant. I worked a minimum of twenty hours a week with an entry level position. Most of the people I worked with were older, in their early thirties to forties. Most of them were married, and lived alone. They were very good people, hard workers, and had a good work ethic.
For me, entry level meant a lot of work, and you certainly don’t need to be good at it to be a good consultant. You don’t need to be a specialist at your job. But you do need to be good at what you do.
Consulting is a career that requires some skill, and entry level consultants are paid by the hour. However, you need to be good at what you do and you need to understand your client’s business.
For someone who consults, entry level could mean working for a small company, with a large staff and lots of people to do one thing well. But it could also mean being a business consultant who has clients and a lot of clients. You have to understand your clients business and how to serve them, and you have to be good at what you do.
It’s like the classic adage of “What kind of car do I want?” “A car that looks good.” The best ones are the ones that look good. The only real question is, “which kind of look good?” I’ve always thought of myself as a “good” stylist. I don’t spend a whole lot of time thinking about it, but I do know and like myself for being able to do a good job of making people feel good about themselves.
Theres nothing wrong with being a little bit of a perfectionist. There are many times that I know that I am doing a good job and I don’t feel the need to show it off. I get it. But its so easy to fall into that trap. Its a common one that I can see many of you have, especially newbies. I feel the same way. I’m just really bad at showing you how good I am.
Sometimes our job description involves doing a relatively easy task and being overly critical of it. Of course, I don’t mean that in a bad way. I mean that we should always be striving to do our best work, but we also have to resist the urge to constantly improve our skills. When we have a full-time job that requires us to do a lot of hard work, and we constantly feel that we need to improve our skills, we are often tempted to take on more difficult tasks.
The problem comes when we feel as though we need to improve our skills more than we need to get a full-time job. That’s when we are apt to feel like our skill is better than our actual work. This is particularly harmful when we are being paid less than we could be. If you have been employed for a long time, you know how much better you are at something than you were when you started.
This is a problem we all have. We all feel that we don’t have enough skills, and then we feel the burden of not being able to do what we should be able to do. We might feel good about ourselves, but we might not be as good as we think we are. We might even feel that we are doing a poor job of our craft because the job we were doing was inferior to what we should be doing.
This is one of the biggest problems we have with the consulting industry. We can see the problems and put them on our resumes, but we are not taught how to solve them. We are not taught how to develop and implement the skills we need to succeed. There are many, many people out there in the industry that don’t even really know how to do the things they need to be doing.