{"id":19,"date":"2007-04-25T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicityschmidtty.com\/wp\/?p=19"},"modified":"2007-04-25T12:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-25T16:40:00","slug":"i-am-a-consultant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schmidtty.me\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"I am a Consultant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Stanley Bing&#8217;s book, &#8220;100 Bullshit Jobs \u2026 and How to Get Them&#8221;, this seemed oddly appropriate&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;\" >Consultant (20 of 50)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Have gun, will travel<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">$$:<\/span> Entry level grunts may begin in the high five and low six figures. If you&#8217;re a graduate of one of the huge consultant factories that leach humanity out of students and turn them into guns for hire&#8211;Wharton, and to a lesser extent, the somewhat squishier Stanford School of Business&#8211;you could be making an executive&#8217;s salary almost immediately.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The upside:<\/span> It&#8217;s a pretty easy job, with great travel benefits, nice hotels, drinks on the companies you are soaking.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The downside:<\/span> Your kids can never explain what you do to their friends.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The dark side:<\/span> You are a ninja, a samurai, a lone traveler on the road to nowhere. It&#8217;s a very opulent nowhere if you&#8217;re good at it. But somewhere in your heart, you want to come in from the cold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Stanley Bing&#8217;s book, &#8220;100 Bullshit Jobs \u2026 and How to Get Them&#8221;, this seemed oddly appropriate&#8230; Consultant (20 of 50) Have gun, will travel $$: Entry level grunts may begin in the high five and low six figures. If you&#8217;re a graduate of one of the huge consultant factories that leach humanity out of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schmidtty.me\/?p=19\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I am a Consultant&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9OONn-j","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schmidtty.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schmidtty.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schmidtty.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schmidtty.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schmidtty.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.schmidtty.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schmidtty.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schmidtty.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schmidtty.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}