From my time working for a big consultancy, this rang excruciatingly true:
De Rond has also seen a kind of “existential” boredom manifest in professional services firms. “That’s not a result of having nothing to do — they have nothing worthwhile to do.”
So much better to be working to change the world by saving the Shire.
I'm hiring.
If you are an Oracle database developer and looking for a job (as opposed to a contract) in consulting in London, I'm interested in hearing from you.
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I find myself travelling at 3 in the afternoon. It seems that the aforementioned shiny new laptop has a few omissions in it’s configuration that cannot be rectified by instructions over the phone.
Well at least I have found out a little more about the work I will be doing and thankfully it will involve complex, highly secure, well designed oracle databases holding monumental amounts of data. All stuff I am right at home with, so I’m happy.
So I have had my first two days at work. Probably completely atypical for anybody’s first days on the job because: